sharity-light/winxp issues

[Dorin H]

--- Redmond Militante <r-militante at northwestern.edu>
wrote:
> hi all
> i almost have sharity-light working well enough to
> be able to map a windows share to my freebsd5.1 box.
> 
> the two machines are: 
> 1. Freebsd 5.1-RELEASE, DHCP but i'm using
> dyndns.org to map the address of
> 'machine1.gotdns.org' to this machine, ipfilter
> enabled
> 2. Windows Xp pro, DHCP but i'm using dyndns.org to
> map the address of 'machine2.gotdns.org' to this
> machine, windows xp built in firewall turned on
> 
> i'm able to successfully map a windows share on the
> winxp machine using
> 
> as root:
> shlight //24.24.24.24/files /mnt/win -U username -P
> password
> 
> in order to do this i had to disable the built in
> windows firewall on the winxp box. is there a way to
> do this without having to disable the built in
> windows firewall entirely? 
<snip>

This is a little offtopic, but you can configure the
Win firewall to pass connections for the file sharing
service (the "Server") (if I remember it correctly is
443) (see control panel, network conns, properties for
local connection, advanced, settings and add port)
Hope this helps,
/Dorin.



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