Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:46:14 -0800 (PST) From: Dorin H <bj93542@yahoo.com> To: Redmond Militante <r-militante@northwestern.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sharity-light/winxp issues Message-ID: <20031216194614.7557.qmail@web12603.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031216180650.GC95392@darkpossum>
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--- Redmond Militante <r-militante@northwestern.edu> wrote: > hi all > i almost have sharity-light working well enough to > be able to map a windows share to my freebsd5.1 box. > > the two machines are: > 1. Freebsd 5.1-RELEASE, DHCP but i'm using > dyndns.org to map the address of > 'machine1.gotdns.org' to this machine, ipfilter > enabled > 2. Windows Xp pro, DHCP but i'm using dyndns.org to > map the address of 'machine2.gotdns.org' to this > machine, windows xp built in firewall turned on > > i'm able to successfully map a windows share on the > winxp machine using > > as root: > shlight //24.24.24.24/files /mnt/win -U username -P > password > > in order to do this i had to disable the built in > windows firewall on the winxp box. is there a way to > do this without having to disable the built in > windows firewall entirely? <snip> This is a little offtopic, but you can configure the Win firewall to pass connections for the file sharing service (the "Server") (if I remember it correctly is 443) (see control panel, network conns, properties for local connection, advanced, settings and add port) Hope this helps, /Dorin. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/
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