From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 13:15:47 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 F205537B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:15:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from globalit.internetx.de (globalit.internetx.de [62.116.147.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7FEA43F3F for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:15:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from H@Schmalzbauer.de) Received: from hscpr (ppp-62-245-162-127.mnet-online.de [62.245.162.127]) (authenticated bits=0) by globalit.internetx.de (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h0VLFRLZ027074; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:15:27 +0100 From: "Harald Schmalzbauer" To: "John Wilson" , Subject: RE: Samba and XP? Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 22:15:35 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <010301c2c96c$f0eeada0$6401a8c0@john5tcrjerpxc> Importance: Normal 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 You could go upside-down and use the FreeBSD machine mounting a XP-share. You say that you're using XPhome so ActiveDirectroy or any other Domain-Controlling issues shouldn't play a role. I think mount_smbfs is your friend. Best regards, -Harry owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message