Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 02:45:52 -0600 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: bsdrockford@pastrytech.com, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My experience Message-ID: <403F03C0.3040002@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <403E9B98.6030501@pastrytech.com> References: <20040226200101.A496416A4D2@hub.freebsd.org> <403E9B98.6030501@pastrytech.com>
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R wrote: > Kjell B. <homebell@telia.com> wrote: > > > If you run XP Home, you can always set up Samba as a workgroup > server and > > file sharing works just fine. I believe it also works if Samba is > setup as a > > domain server but you won't get domain support. As always, read the > > documentation, in this case the Samba documentation. I've set up > Samba as a > > workgroup server and it went like a breeze once I've read the Samba > > documentation. I've had a lot more problems getting domain support > to work > > with XP Professional, but managed that too in the end. > > Really? Thanks for the information. I did read a good bit of the > Samba instructions... but mainly relied on various "how to set up > Samba on FreeBSD" type web pages, and the books I mentioned earlier. > Following the instructions on those pages, and altering them slightly > when things didn't work, didn't get me far... > > The actual amount of files I have to transfer back and forth are > small, so for now ftp works well. And once I start moving over the > html and python scripts, I'll be using http within Zope, so I don't > think I'll need Samba, like I did when starting out. Plus it gives me > some pleasure to skip out on Windows networking! If I was setting up > a LAN file server and wanted access from my Windows laptop, things > would be different, of course. You know you got me thinking... "Whats the best way to tranfer data to and from a stock FreeBSD system without loading any 3rd party software or starting unnessasary / insecure services" Then it hit me, use SFTP with SSH duh!!! FreeBSD ships with SSH, it's on by default on most system's (if its not, add "sshd_enable="YES" to rc.conf), and it's secure. Whats that you say, "You don't have a Windows FTP client that supports SFTP", Try FileZilla, it supports SFTP using SSH2, FTP over SSL, and plain old FTP and best of all its FREE! http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ If your unfamiliar with SSH, be aware that directly logging in as root is disabled on *nix systems, you'll have to login with a regular user account. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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