Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:07:53 -0500 From: Nicolas Blais <nb_root@videotron.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> Subject: Re: Sharing filesystems between FreeBSD and Windows ... Message-ID: <200511221007.54072.nb_root@videotron.ca> In-Reply-To: <1132671589.707.21.camel@localhost> References: <1132671589.707.21.camel@localhost>
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--nextPart1761995.oqT4IHAmer Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On November 22, 2005 09:59 am, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I have a home network running 3 desktop machines with Windows XP Pro, > and a webserver, fileserver and laptop with FreeBSD 5.x. > > What's the best way to be able to exchange files and directory shares > between the two environments? > > It would also be nice to share the printer which is connected to one of > the Windows boxes via USB. > > I hear that Samba is the way to go, but also have heard about such > client-based utilities like Sharity-light which also do the trick. > > Thanks alot in advance. I use samba+cups at home. My situation is similar, except my printer is=20 connected to one of my FreeBSD machines. The hardest part of linking FreeB= SD=20 with Windows isn't the getting the shares to work, but the printers to work= ,=20 and I found it easier to have the printer on FreeBSD and have Windows write= =20 to it using real drivers (cups in RAW mode). Actually, it's not as hard at is seems. Here's what I put in my smb.conf t= o=20 make the printer work: printing =3D cups load printers =3D yes [printers] path =3D /var/spool/samba use client driver =3D Yes printable =3D yes public =3D yes guest ok =3D yes writable =3D no You'll find a lot of help in the Samba documentation and cups is also well= =20 documented. Nicolas. =2D-=20 =46reeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Nov 19 12:36:29 EST 2005 =20 root@clk01a:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A=20 PGP? (updated 16 Nov 05) : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc --nextPart1761995.oqT4IHAmer Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDgzRK4wTBlvcsbJURAj7VAJ9h9YSdw9snPgzw354CaIT0zI1+0wCeOP4+ TPVrbzLmh3C1kgwUBPxpxLE= =UB3k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1761995.oqT4IHAmer--
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