SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread David Larkin
I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread Luke Kearney
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread David Larkin
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread David Larkin
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box.

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread Luke Kearney
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:19:45 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread Nick Pavlica
Is this safe ? Obviously security isn't really a priority in your situation. It sound like you are really looking for convenience. That said there are a large number of options out there for you, samba is one of them and can easily be configured with a utility called webmin

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread Kevin Kinsey
David Larkin wrote: I have a FreeBSD 5.3 machine and a Windoze XP box. I am the only user of both. I don't want to share files or act as a full time fileserver. I simply wish to exchange files ocassionally, e.g. copy FreeBSD backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. I used to use anon ftp for

Re: SAMBA newbie

2005-03-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 + David Larkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: I