Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:26:20 +0100 From: "Kjell B." <homebell@telia.com> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Cc: bsdrockford@pastrytech.com Subject: Re: My experience Message-ID: <00da01c3fc52$f9f4e580$0300a8c0@BELLDELL> References: <20040225200124.9E40016A4D7@hub.freebsd.org> <403D67EF.1040100@pastrytech.com>
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R wrote: > Hello, -snip- > My biggest installation problems: setting up a domain and IP for the > machine, and configuring Samba so that my laptop could talk to the > server. I think networking information should be explained more > completely online and in the books I mentioned above. I did a lot of > trial and error, which proved fatal with Samba, because as it turns > out Windows XP Home is intentionally crippled when it comes to > networking > and using Samba is difficult (if not impossible - I still don't > understand, and I wasted a week screwing around trying to get it to > work). Finally I gave up and just use FTP to move files back and > forth. Works fine and at least I understand it, unlike Windows > "shares." -snip- As this is not FreeBSD related, but rather a Samba/Win XP Home issue, I feel I dare to give a somewhat technical answer. If you run XP Home, you can always set up Samba as a workgroup server and file sharing works just fine. I believe it also works if Samba is setup as a domain server but you won't get domain support. As always, read the documentation, in this case the Samba documentation. I've set up Samba as a workgroup server and it went like a breeze once I've read the Samba documentation. I've had a lot more problems getting domain support to work with XP Professional, but managed that too in the end. -- Kjell
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