From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 30 15:37:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8EC216A402 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:37:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771CF13C48A for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:37:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so1062835ugh for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:37:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=ebqsAZYxGbzZ/9j8bSLTajhyYtkgHZEzlqgF05eY1T9P6gCur2gh+Z5i4U+o7vsavsw1Jg2INTVXoCsTsDy6YjoTDJtdaLukEKhdSRCdmv+dxir5g9cGSrR4kAO/YR8KHJ4Ah1iXneUdTGswaq/BdliNFiiB/k8Pm1TK6YxO4Ck= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=JmQmrz40ie5Mv7Tndklmydb5MJw/0K/7UY+yXkaBL19O4wzcAicbnyhfCr/zymjaiSHkH7wk3oBq8DO5s3vzWKOTpo2E7Bg6VWQIAzj3d0yc5nHlKKVKEmYYR28MwrsXwucFatHbhP9MiTZ+m3f4mXSDuJ398Z9kUQ63nIRSx5s= Received: by 10.66.244.11 with SMTP id r11mr3273810ugh.1177947447893; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.254.1 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <539c60b90704300837r1b769151u33badba8b0d8c1ac@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:37:22 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "L Goodwin" In-Reply-To: <416323.52564.qm@web58112.mail.re3.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <416323.52564.qm@web58112.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5751b6a51255a7c2 Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No SMB/Samba support on Windows Home Editions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:37:30 -0000 > 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. Steve