From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 19 18:55:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 A88B516A41F for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:55:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3CBE43D48 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:55:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.07) with ESMTP id j8JItLKk009212 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:55:21 -0700 Received: from [128.208.4.242] (nilakantha.cs.washington.edu [128.208.4.242]) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.07) with ESMTP id j8JItLdm009759 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:55:21 -0700 Message-ID: <432F0999.5030308@u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:55:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050918133614.1ff2e168.dick@nagual.st> <20050918121542.GB29351@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20050918160820.GA96310@lothlorien.nagual.st> <20050919175605.19030097@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050919175605.19030097@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: osx-fbsd-winxp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 18:55:30 -0000 jonas wrote: >hi! > >On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:08:20 +0200 >Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > >[snip] > > >>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 ;-) >> >> > >as osx is based on freebsd... is mount_smbfs still present? if so, >one of the easiest ways should be to share a folder on the windows >machine and the mount it from the osx box (see: man mount_smbfs). > >alternatively you could install a nfs client (nfsAxe is one i recall) on >the windows box and use NFS to share files. >i would prefer this one, since i don't like smb. > >after all, why are _you_ trying to find out, how your kids can keep >things secret from you? let them figure out :-P > >greetz, >jonas > Although MacOSX is FreeBSD based, it's somewhat dangerous to deal with the non-GUI based UI junk as the Unix commands don't tie into the OS very well, IMO. That was the only sad thing about OSX for me I discovered, but Apple probably thought that people would like to connect to servers via the GUI method more than the CLI based command =\. If you need scriptability, there're always Applescript and the Automator in 10.4 that ties in with Apple's stuff quite nicely. -Garrett