Accessing file from windows or to windows

[Modulok]

In order to 'provide' shares to a windows network you would need to
run a daemon on FreeBSD which provides such services. The most popular
solution is 'samba'. I think the package is called 'samba3'. You
install it, edit its config file, which specifies what to share and
how to share it. You then run the daemon and poof, your windows
machines can access the shares you've configured.

On the other hand, if the windows machines are providing a shared
folder you want to access, you can just mount that share via the
'mount_smbfs' command. For example, if I had a windows computer named
'apollo' with username 'guest' and a folder named 'shared' I wanted to
access, I could do this from my FreeBSD machine:

# As root:
mount_smbfs //guest at apollo/shared /mnt

I would now have the contents of apollo's 'shared' folder available in
my '/mnt' directory. See 'mount_smbfs(8)' for more.

Other options could involve setting up an SSH client/server on the two
machines and use 'sftp' or 'scp' to transfer files, among others.
-Modulok-

On 5/6/10, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
> On 5/6/2010 3:47 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible,
>> to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to "map" a directory from the
>> windows box.
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> I have
>>
>> Xp
>> Win7
>> Win2003
>> Win2008
>> Freebsd 6.4
>>
>> thanx
>
>
> Same machine or two separate machines?
>
> Two separate machines is trivial - share
> a directory on the Win machine and use smbfs
> on FBSD to get to it.
>
> For same machine, boot FBSD, and do a mount
> with -t ntfs as an arg .... well, I don't recall
> if 6.4 supported this or not, now that I think about it.
>
>
> One-time or frequent transfer?
>
> There are tons of other options, especially if you're running
> separate machines.  Not all of these are elegant, but they
> all will work and have their place for infrequent transfers:
>
> - Email the file to yourself from one OS and retrieve it
>   from the other.
>
> - Copy the file to a thumbdrive
>
> - Copy the file to a private website which can then
>   be subsequently retrieved by another machine/OS
>   image.
>
>
>
>
>
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