From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 18:00:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D281F37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E38C43F3F for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 18:00:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zettel@acm.org) Received: from 169.254.174.3 (bgp966828bgs.derbrn01.mi.comcast.net[68.41.109.203](untrusted sender)) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with SMTP id <2003072401000601600b5267e>; Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:00:07 +0000 From: Leonard Zettel Organization: LenZ Computer Consulting To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:00:30 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307240100.30835.zettel@acm.org> Subject: Interacting with windoze machines on the local network X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:00:09 -0000 I have a local ethernet network with: One FreeBSD box One Windows XP professional box Two Windows ME boxes (one of which is the inernet firewall, using Sygate).. I would like to be able to access the hardware and file systems of the windows boxes from the FreeBSD system, if for no other reason than expediting the task of making the FreeBSD system my main computing resource.. Is Samba still the recommended way to do this? Is Mickeysquish's phasing out of NETBUI going to be a problem? Are there any other reasonable alternatives? -LenZ-