From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 13:59:40 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 6453837B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:59:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7566543F75 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:59:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0VM11T5001921; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:01:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E3AF175.9040904@potentialtech.com> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:58:13 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Wilson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba and XP? References: <010301c2c96c$f0eeada0$6401a8c0@john5tcrjerpxc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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