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Date:      Sat, 01 Jan 2005 02:49:11 +0000
From:      jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Networking to WinXP
Message-ID:  <1104547751l.14354l.2l@BARTON>
In-Reply-To: <20041231185121.GB51268@quark.cs.earlham.edu> (from skylar@cs.earlham.edu on Fri Dec 31 13:51:21 2004)
References:  <20041231044936.6B9A.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com> <20041231185121.GB51268@quark.cs.earlham.edu>

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On 12/31/04 13:51:21, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:56:47AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > I have used the 'smbclient' from Samba to access my WinXP computers
> from
> > my FreeBSD computer. I have also used 'sharity-light'.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any other full featured networking tool that I
> can
> > use to access my WinXP boxes.  I am not too happy with either of =20
> the
> two
> > I mentioned above.
>=20
> That's pretty much it; Samba is your answer to just about any
> Unix<->Windows internetworking. What precisely aren't you please =20
> with?
>=20
> --
> -- Skylar Thompson (skylar@cs.earlham.edu)
> -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
>

I think he wants a gui.  You could set up samba and there is support =20
for it built in gnome and kde stuff already.  I don't use either, so I =20
can't tell you much.

I would recomend you go to freshports.org and do some samba searchs to =20
see if anything else you like pops up?



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