Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:58:13 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: John Wilson <jmw74@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba and XP? Message-ID: <3E3AF175.9040904@potentialtech.com> References: <010301c2c96c$f0eeada0$6401a8c0@john5tcrjerpxc>
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John Wilson 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', There's an XP machine right behind me that talks to our Samba server just fine. Just don't configure Samba to be a domain server. And, it does work just fine under domain systems as well. Samba just doesn't do active directory yet. > 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. Well, I didn't think it was a terribly big package, but that's my opinion. > 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. :) I don't recommend this. Aside from the cost, I've never found one that worked worth a damn. > 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. I think you'll be just fine with Samba. Just make sure you're properly firewalled off (you should be with Windows anyway) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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