Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

[Andrew Gould]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:00 AM,  <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:
> Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have a recommendation for NAS that works well for
>> both FreeBSD and Windows clients?
>
> IME, among commercial offerings, virtually all support SMB (via
> Samba) but only the high-end (large & relatively costly) ones
> support NFS also.  (A while back, the largest Buffalo that Fry's
> had -- 4TB IIRC -- claimed to support NFS; all other NAS of any
> brand mentioned only SMB and DELNI.)
>
> You can use an inexpensive SMB-only NAS with a FreeBSD client,
> but you'll need Samba on the client.
>

Another item to consider in this discussion is sharity-light, an
easy-to-use program that allows FreeBSD to mount Windows shares.
Sharity-light is in the ports and Sharity is available  as a
commercial product:

http://www.freshports.org/net/sharity-light
http://www.obdev.at/products/sharity/index.html

Andrew Gould