From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 15:08:21 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 AB32816A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:08:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nb_root@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F4B43DA3 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:08:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nb_root@videotron.ca) Received: from clk01a ([66.130.198.54]) by VL-MO-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0IQD00M5R3D6TH50@VL-MO-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:07:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:07:53 -0500 From: Nicolas Blais In-reply-to: <1132671589.707.21.camel@localhost> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200511221007.54072.nb_root@videotron.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=nextPart1761995.oqT4IHAmer; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <1132671589.707.21.camel@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: Kiffin Gish Subject: Re: Sharing filesystems between FreeBSD and Windows ... 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: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:08:21 -0000 --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--