Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:19:45 +0000 From: David Larkin <david.larkin@djl.co.uk> To: David Larkin <david.larkin@djl.co.uk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SAMBA newbie Message-ID: <20050310191945.574bb924@sparrow> In-Reply-To: <20050310185932.6a965cd8@sparrow> References: <20050310182852.0a9e0951@sparrow> <20050311021240.9F16.LUKEK@meibin.net> <20050310185932.6a965cd8@sparrow>
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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:59:32 +0000 David Larkin <david.larkin@djl.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 > Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 +0000 > > David Larkin <david.larkin@djl.co.uk> 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 backup files to the XP box to burn on CD. > > > > > > I used to use anon ftp for this type of thing but found the security a nightmare. I've now installed Samba on the FreeBSD box , but I'm not sure this is a good idea. > > > > > > Can I set up a 'sandbox' directory on my FreeBSD machine where both machines can read and write ? > > > > > > After installing samba and setting the workgroup in smb.conf, i can now see the FREEBSD box in 'view workgroup computers' but clicking on that I am asked for a username/password , which i'm reluctant to give. > > > > > > Any advice ? > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Hello, > > If you take a look at the documentation you will find that you have > > several options, you can encrypt the passwds, you could set up a guest > > account with no passwd but restrict access to a particular filesystem to > > think of but two. > > > > HTH > > > > LukeK > > > > Thanks, I don't want to use any passwords, enrypted or otherwise > > The guest account sounds interesing. > > I've commented out the following in smb.conf > > # This one is useful for people to share files > [tmp] > comment = Temporary file space > path = /tmp > read only = no > public = yes > > > should this allow everyone on both machines to write to the /tmp directory but not execute anything there ? > > I still get challenged for a username/password on the XP directory. > guest/guest and nobody/nobody both fail > OK, I got that to work by changing the line security = user to security = share Is this safe ????? > > -- > > <> > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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