Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

[Chip Camden]

Thanks for all the replies.  FreeNAS looks like the ticket.

BTW, sharity-light is marked as broken in the ports -- does not compile.
I'm on 8.0-STABLE amd64.

On May 11 2010 06:43, Andrew Gould wrote:
> 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
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