Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:42:54 -0400 From: "Marc Rocque" <rocque.m@gmail.com> To: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No SMB/Samba support on Windows Home Editions Message-ID: <3c71dfeb0704301242j197a58ddy6f2882107caeb1bf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90704300837r1b769151u33badba8b0d8c1ac@mail.gmail.com> References: <416323.52564.qm@web58112.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <539c60b90704300837r1b769151u33badba8b0d8c1ac@mail.gmail.com>
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This may be going too far off the Samba track but have you considered using WebDAV? All versions of MS connect to this and it's easier to set-up security by sharing through SSL connection. Apache can authenticate against any NIS, database or even username password using htpasswd. Good Luck, Marc On 4/30/07, 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. > > Steve > _______________________________________________ > 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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