how to install samba and windows xp ?

[Zivo Ki]

Thanks for your reply Im working in everything you
wrote : ) It would take me some time.
When I have a question I will be more specific with
the question and the freebsd mails. 
Thanks for pointing me that. And Its good to know that
I can chat here.


Thanks,

Zivo Ki





clayton rollins <crollins666 at hotmail.com> wrote:On 8,
august 2003 Zivo Ki wrote:
(some formatting applied...)
>
>I have to many questions because Im a complete
newbie, I have done
>this with windows 2000 server with none problem, but
I didnt have the
>licence so I got rid of windows server and Installed
freebsd instead, 
>because I want to learn it: )
>

Congratulations! Once you learn it, you'll be much
more satisfied with it...

>
>I have a freebsd box and I want to share folders with
all the windows xp
>boxes (5 pc's), the windows machine has a worgroup
named officewinxp
>and also i want to install apache, and the most
dificult part I want to 
>share
>a cable modem conection for the internet .
>
>All this, is it posible ?  
>
>I installed the default package of apache, and samba
but it didnt worked,
>and also i cant share my internet conection. I have
to change my mac 
>address in the freebsd box (because that mac
restriction with my cable
>company)
>
>(i tryed with ifconfig and it worked but I think the
system is not 
>configurated
>to share the internet)
>
>So if someone have the patience to help me please I
would be so happy
>
>Thanks Zivo Ki

About running apache and sharing the internet
connection, I know from
experience this works. (I see no reason why samba
shouldn't work...)

Apache worked for me without any configuration.
Connecting to
http://127.0.0.1/ showed a default (error) page
included with apache. If
you're having problems with the config file, the
'apachectl' command is
very useful in finding errors/manipulating the daemon.
('apachectl -h' for
more information.)

Sharing the internet connection was a little more
difficult, but not 
impossible.
For me, NATD was the answer. All that really needed to
be done was to add
some lines to /etc/rc.conf and the kernel. See
http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd.html
for a full explanation.

Samba can be complicated, but, again, is not
impossible. The documents in
/usr/local/share/doc/samba should answer any questions
you might have.
'man smb.conf' is also very useful.

You'll note that most of my reply here gives no
definite answer; you'll have 
to
write to freebsd-questions for technical advice.
-newbies is more for 
chatting,
relating experiences, sharing resources, etc., so I
try to limit any 
responses here
to pointing out any documents I know of and the proper
list.

A few last words of advice before you write
-questions. First, (this is 
their rule)
try to limit your lines to less than 80 characters, so
crappy mail clients 
will break
lines right. Second, you might want to limit specific
emails to specific 
problems,
and include more information. (ie. write a single mail
about apache and 
include
specifics about what problem you're having; all I
really know from the above 
email
is that you can't get them to work.)

Well, I wish you good luck. I see no reason that you
shouldn't be able to do 
what
you want do.

Peace,
Clayton

PS. If you want to try sticking to your natural
language, you might try
http://www.FreeBSD.org/support.html#mailing-list to
see if there is already 
lists in
your language. (Your English isn't really bad; I
understood...)

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