My experience

[Nikolas Britton]

R wrote:

> Kjell B. <homebell at telia.com> wrote:
>
> > If you run XP Home, you can always set up Samba as a workgroup 
> server and
> > file sharing works just fine. I believe it also works if Samba is 
> setup as a
> > domain server but you won't get domain support. As always, read the
> > documentation, in this case the Samba documentation. I've set up 
> Samba as a
> > workgroup server and it went like a breeze once I've read the Samba
> > documentation. I've had a lot more problems getting domain support 
> to work
> > with XP Professional, but managed that too in the end.
>
> Really?  Thanks for the information.  I did read a good bit of the 
> Samba instructions... but mainly relied on various "how to set up 
> Samba on FreeBSD" type web pages, and the books I mentioned earlier.  
> Following the instructions on those pages, and altering them slightly 
> when things didn't work, didn't get me far...
>
> The actual amount of files I have to transfer back and forth are 
> small, so for now ftp works well.  And once I start moving over the 
> html and python scripts, I'll be using http within Zope, so I don't 
> think I'll need Samba, like I did when starting out.  Plus it gives me 
> some pleasure to skip out on Windows networking!  If I was setting up 
> a LAN file server and wanted access from my Windows laptop, things 
> would be different, of course. 

You know you got me thinking...
"Whats the best way to tranfer data to and from a stock FreeBSD system 
without loading any 3rd party software or starting unnessasary / 
insecure services"
Then it hit me, use SFTP with SSH duh!!! FreeBSD ships with SSH, it's on 
by default on most system's (if its not, add "sshd_enable="YES" to 
rc.conf),  and it's secure.
Whats that you say, "You don't have a Windows FTP client that supports 
SFTP", Try FileZilla, it supports SFTP using SSH2, FTP over SSL, and 
plain old FTP and best of all its FREE! http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/

If your unfamiliar with SSH, be aware that directly logging in as root 
is disabled on *nix systems, you'll have to login with a regular user 
account.

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