I can't see the whole history of this conversation because the gmane site is down for maintenance at the moment. But I don't recall cygwin being mentioned and it's certainly another good alternative to samba, as it includes openssh. In theory, you can set up an sshd with cygwin. I say "in theory" because I have not attempted to do so. I just scp files in both directions from a shell running in the cygwin environment on the Windows side. If you have a bunch of machines on a private network, you can put the local machine addresses in winnt/system32/drivers/etc/hosts. It works well.
Another alternative is pscp, which I think has been mentioned. On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Erling Westenvik <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 10:56:10PM -0800, Byron Klippert wrote: >> - can I share a drive using Samba without interfering with the existing >> domain system? > > AFAIK, yes. As long as you setup Samba as a workgroup server and not as > a domain controller, I can't see why the clients should not be able to > connect to a Samba share using good old "net use x: \\<SERVER>\<SHARE>" > just like it would connect to any other shared resource? > > You should probably just install samba ("# pkg_add samba") and play > around a bit. The OpenBSD port of samba gives you a head start with the > supplied README file in /usr/local/share/doc/pkg_readmes/. > > (Marcus mentions using "the Cloud" and you could experiment with > OwnCloud in ports/packages. OwnCloud offers a native Windows sync client > which works well. However, there seem to be problems with many > files/files larger than 2GB, and there is no GUI client available for > OpenBSD.)
