From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 17:18:09 2005 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 73BE816A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:18:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shiba.meibin.jp (shiba.meibin.jp [211.18.246.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F4D143D31 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:18:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lukek@meibin.net) Received: (qmail 16797 invoked by uid 1011); 10 Mar 2005 17:17:47 -0000 Received: from 192.168.10.8 by shiba.meibin.jp (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.24-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.83/705. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.24-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(192.168.10.8):SA:0(-2.8/5.0):. Processed in 4.183916 secs); 10 Mar 2005 17:17:47 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.8 required=5.0 X-Antivirus-MEIBIN-Mail-From: lukek@meibin.net via shiba.meibin.jp X-Antivirus-MEIBIN: 1.24-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(192.168.10.8):SA:0(-2.8/5.0):. Processed in 4.183916 secs Process 16789) Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.10.8?) (lukek@meibin.net@192.168.10.8) by shiba.meibin.jp with SMTP; 10 Mar 2005 17:17:42 -0000 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 From: Luke Kearney To: David Larkin In-Reply-To: <20050310182852.0a9e0951@sparrow> References: <20050310182852.0a9e0951@sparrow> Message-Id: <20050311021240.9F16.LUKEK@meibin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.07.01 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SAMBA newbie 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, 10 Mar 2005 17:18:09 -0000 On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 +0000 David Larkin spake thus: > I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. > > I am the only user of both. > > I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. > > I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. > > I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box , but I'm not sure this is a good idea. > > Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? > > After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give. > > Any advice ? > _______________________________________________ Hello, If you take a look at the documentation you will find that you have several options, you can encrypt the passwds, you could set up a guest account with no passwd but restrict access to a particular filesystem to think of but two. HTH LukeK -- <>