From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 13: 8:44 2003 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 9F07A37B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:08:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from dc-mx12.cluster1.charter.net (dc-mx12.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.8.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44AF43FC1 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:08:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmw74@charter.net) Received: from [24.197.167.221] (HELO john5tcrjerpxc) by dc-mx12.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with SMTP id 77085900 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:08:42 -0500 Message-ID: <010301c2c96c$f0eeada0$6401a8c0@john5tcrjerpxc> From: "John Wilson" To: Subject: Samba and XP? Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:08:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Good Day, I am currently seeking advice in regard to allowing an XP Home Edition machine to have access to a FreeBSD mount. I've looked over Samba, and not only have I seen references to XP's inability to join a 'domain based-network', but also don't really like the idea of installing Samba as it's a rather large package (relatively speaking) for what it simply does. My only other alternative, if I am correct, is trying to obtain an NFS client for the XP machine and simply serve NFS mounts on the FBSD host. The downside to this is the cost of the NFS clients for the XP machine. :) Are there any other alternatives available here? If not, which of the above two 'solutions' would be best? I only have one BSD machine and one XP machine, and I'd like to allow read/write access to a FBSD mount from the XP machine. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. - John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message