Hello Byron, Firstly, are they windows 7 pro or enterprise? Most people don't know any difference but one that I have found is that Enterprise included the Microsoft NFS client along with their other Unix interoperability tools. Of course almost no one buys enterprise because it much more expensive.
If you have Windows 7 Pro then this is what I have found, even though it's not much to work with. It depends on whether in transit security is important to you. If you can get away without it ftp is your best choice. This is a tough situation that I have tried to find clever solutions to but they are few and far between. Simply sharing files between computers is a nightmare for normal people because in simple situations like yours there isn't really a simple answer. Email and USB sticks are popular not because they're efficient, but because they work without tedious setup. If you are a domain admin then you could also install something like WinSCP and just configure SSH to be available on the box. I've even seen it work where you get the portable exe of a program and you can run it without installing it to a domain connected computer. Putty for example does this. Let me know if you find anything Evan Root, CCNA On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:56 PM, Byron Klippert <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm looking at options for sharing machine resources > (drives/directories/files) over LAN between OpenBSD server and Windows7 > clients. > > The Windows7 clients already belong to a corporate domain system, and my > lack of experience with Samba is telling me not to converge the two. > > My first choice is NFS, but... Windows7 Pro 64-bit doesn't seem to have > a NFS client built-in. All the alternatives I've tried cost money or > suck (or both). > > > Questions to the list... > > - what, besides ftp/http can I use to get as close to a "shared" disk > over LAN? > > - can I share a drive using Samba without interfering with the existing > domain system? > > > The LAN I'm running the OpenBSD server on is a different subnet and > accessed over WiFi. The Windows7 clients access the domain over > Ethernet. > > > > Thanks, > > -- > Byron Klippert > [email protected] > c. 867-336-1306
