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Subject: Re: osx-fbsd-winxp
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On Sunday 18 September 2005 10:08 am, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> On 18 Sep Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 01:36:14PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > > What is the best way to let the winxp machine communicate with the
> > > mac/osx? And what about the fbsd machine. Is there a protocol I can
> > > use for all three of them?
> >
> > Depends on when you mean with "communicate".
> >
> > For exchanging files, all three support SMB/CIFS. Install
> > /usr/ports/net/samba on FreeBSD. You can then publish a 'share' from
> > the FreeBSD that the others can connect to.
>
> Right. ;-) That one is easy.. But the share needs to be on the fbsd
> machine then. Can I also share parts of the XP / OSX to each other or
> will this be hard to do. My daughter is on osx, her brother on xp and
> they do not always want me (fbsd) in the middle ;-)

SMB/CIFS is a peer to peer protocol so you will be able to share files between 
any of your computers. So your son and daughter will be able to share files 
between themself directly.