Re: Samba and XP?
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:08:44 -0500, John Wilson wrote: I am currently seeking advice in regard to allowing an XP Home Edition machine to have access to a FreeBSD mount. I've looked over Samba, and not only have I seen references to XP's inability to join a 'domain based-network', but also don't really like the idea of installing Samba as it's a rather large package (relatively speaking) for what it simply does. My only other alternative, if I am correct, is trying to obtain an NFS client for the XP machine and simply serve NFS mounts on the FBSD host. The downside to this is the cost of the NFS clients for the XP machine. :) Are there any other alternatives available here? If not, which of the above two 'solutions' would be best? I only have one BSD machine and one XP machine, and I'd like to allow read/write access to a FBSD mount from the XP machine. I have SAMBA 2.2.6 and Windows XP working great. I have Samba setup as a PDC. the worst you have to do is run the SignOrSeal.reg fix from microsoft to login. you have to do that with NT 5.0 as well. --- doug reynolds | the maverick | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Samba and XP?
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Bill Moran wrote: There's an XP machine right behind me that talks to our Samba server just fine. Just don't configure Samba to be a domain server. And, it does work just fine under domain systems as well. Samba just doesn't do active directory yet. OT, but my understanding is that indows XP Home Edition will not log in to NT4-based (SMB-only) networks, but only Windows 2000 (Active Directory) networks. However, Windows XP Professional will log in to both. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Samba and XP?
XP Home will not 'log into' ANY server-based network (NT4 domain model OR Active Directory). However, this does not mean you can't access samba shares on other machines. ie. it supports workgroup networking but not domain networking. Login to the local XP Home box, browse on the network to find the SMB server you want, and open it up. The XP Home box will attempt to authenticate using the local user's username and password: if that fails, it will pop up a box asking for a valid username and password. This should work just fine. XP Home CAN also access shares on servers that are part of a domain, using this same method. The only difference is that the username and password used must be valid on the domain. BTW: just to make it clear, if the credentials used to login to the local XP Home box exist on the SMB server, the user will be let straight through without being asked for another password. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Hunt Sent: Sunday, 2 February 2003 9:33 AM To: Bill Moran Cc: John Wilson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba and XP? On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Bill Moran wrote: There's an XP machine right behind me that talks to our Samba server just fine. Just don't configure Samba to be a domain server. And, it does work just fine under domain systems as well. Samba just doesn't do active directory yet. OT, but my understanding is that indows XP Home Edition will not log in to NT4-based (SMB-only) networks, but only Windows 2000 (Active Directory) networks. However, Windows XP Professional will log in to both. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
OT - Re: Samba and XP?
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Jason Hunt wrote: OT, but my understanding is that Windows XP Home Edition will not log in to NT4-based (SMB-only) networks, but only Windows 2000 (Active Directory) networks. However, Windows XP Professional will log in to both. In my experience, XP Home is completely useless. One of the tricks it does is randomly drop any static IP addresses it has been set and grant itself new ones from ranges that are already assigned. Also, sometimes when there is nothing wrong network-wise other than an unplugged cable, it will lead the clueless user through a whole rigmarole where they are encouraged to Set up home networking or some such, which rips through every network setting on the box and they end up trying to do some non-IP nonsense called Bridged connection or whatever (nothing to do with Ethernet bridging I'm sure), and then the user wonders why they can't get on the net anymore - Nothing works, I've followed all the instructions, I think your firewall thing is broken. XP pro doesn't seem to do anything like that, presumably because its designed to be actually used on a corporate network where they might be people around who'll see through it. -- W. Palfreman. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Samba and XP?
You could go upside-down and use the FreeBSD machine mounting a XP-share. You say that you're using XPhome so ActiveDirectroy or any other Domain-Controlling issues shouldn't play a role. I think mount_smbfs is your friend. Best regards, -Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Day, I am currently seeking advice in regard to allowing an XP Home Edition machine to have access to a FreeBSD mount. I've looked over Samba, and not only have I seen references to XP's inability to join a 'domain based-network', but also don't really like the idea of installing Samba as it's a rather large package (relatively speaking) for what it simply does. My only other alternative, if I am correct, is trying to obtain an NFS client for the XP machine and simply serve NFS mounts on the FBSD host. The downside to this is the cost of the NFS clients for the XP machine. :) Are there any other alternatives available here? If not, which of the above two 'solutions' would be best? I only have one BSD machine and one XP machine, and I'd like to allow read/write access to a FBSD mount from the XP machine. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. - John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Samba and XP?
John Wilson wrote: Good Day, I am currently seeking advice in regard to allowing an XP Home Edition machine to have access to a FreeBSD mount. I've looked over Samba, and not only have I seen references to XP's inability to join a 'domain based-network', There's an XP machine right behind me that talks to our Samba server just fine. Just don't configure Samba to be a domain server. And, it does work just fine under domain systems as well. Samba just doesn't do active directory yet. but also don't really like the idea of installing Samba as it's a rather large package (relatively speaking) for what it simply does. Well, I didn't think it was a terribly big package, but that's my opinion. My only other alternative, if I am correct, is trying to obtain an NFS client for the XP machine and simply serve NFS mounts on the FBSD host. The downside to this is the cost of the NFS clients for the XP machine. :) I don't recommend this. Aside from the cost, I've never found one that worked worth a damn. Are there any other alternatives available here? If not, which of the above two 'solutions' would be best? I only have one BSD machine and one XP machine, and I'd like to allow read/write access to a FBSD mount from the XP machine. I think you'll be just fine with Samba. Just make sure you're properly firewalled off (you should be with Windows anyway) -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Samba and XP?
If you don't want to install samba, find a windows ftp client that is easy to use... seems I've seen some that pretend to be hard drives on your desktop... can't remember the name, but the friend that had it seemed to like it. -philip On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, John Wilson wrote: Good Day, I am currently seeking advice in regard to allowing an XP Home Edition machine to have access to a FreeBSD mount. I've looked over Samba, and not only have I seen references to XP's inability to join a 'domain based-network', but also don't really like the idea of installing Samba as it's a rather large package (relatively speaking) for what it simply does. My only other alternative, if I am correct, is trying to obtain an NFS client for the XP machine and simply serve NFS mounts on the FBSD host. The downside to this is the cost of the NFS clients for the XP machine. :) Are there any other alternatives available here? If not, which of the above two 'solutions' would be best? I only have one BSD machine and one XP machine, and I'd like to allow read/write access to a FBSD mount from the XP machine. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. - John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
