On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 02:15:28 +0900 Luke Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:28:52 +0000 > David Larkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > -- > <> > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
