Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 16:49:39 -0700 (PDT) From: L Goodwin <xrayv19@yahoo.com> To: Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No SMB/Samba support on Windows Home Editions Message-ID: <746736.5026.qm@web58109.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90704300837r1b769151u33badba8b0d8c1ac@mail.gmail.com>
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--- Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> wrote: > > 1) Windows "Home" editions (including XP and > Vista) > > have support for SMB protocol disabled in Active > > Directory Domain Connections functionality! > > Is this true? > > > > ... > > I've been doing this for a long time (just not with > Vista), but what > was said is just as true for XP, so I assume nothing > further is > disabled in vista. > > There's been alot of replies over the weeked, but I > don't think any > cuts to the heart of the matter. > > * They are just telling you you can't have a > "domain" or "active > directory", we actually ran one for a while, and the > maintenence cost > to keep the thing happy was one of the factors that > made me learn > fbsd. > > * When someone said 'peer to peer', I think they > were really talking > about a "workgroup" as opposed to a domain - it's > not really peer to > peer, afaik, but the analogy works. > > 1) Just set your 'home' box to a random 'workgroup' > in the network > setup - you are not going to use it anyway. > > 2) Get your smb box running. > > 3) Map a network drive in windows, and use the IP > for the smb box. I > have NEVER had a 'workgroup' function correctly. > Boxes all wired on > the same 100-T switch, and they still can't see > eachother? Amazing. > Just use the IP adress (i.e. > \\192.168.1.xyz\mysmbshare) to map the > drive and you will never have a problem. Oh, and as > you are on a fbsd > box, I assume the capitalization of 'mysmbshare' > must be correct, > although samba might 'fix' that for you. I just > followed the > instructions in the handbook and samba.org, and had > things working in > an hour or two. > Thanks, Steve. I resolved the hostname/IP resolution issue by specifying them in etc/hosts file on each Windows client (still need to make server's IP address static in the router, but it's working fine for now). After that, I was able to mount using "net use /persistent:Yes s: \\SERVER\sharename". __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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