Networking to WinXP

jason henson jason at ec.rr.com
Fri Dec 31 18:44:26 PST 2004


On 12/31/04 13:51:21, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:56:47AM -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > I have used the 'smbclient' from Samba to access my WinXP computers
> from
> > my FreeBSD computer. I have also used 'sharity-light'.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any other full featured networking tool that I
> can
> > use to access my WinXP boxes.  I am not too happy with either of  
> the
> two
> > I mentioned above.
> 
> That's pretty much it; Samba is your answer to just about any
> Unix<->Windows internetworking. What precisely aren't you please  
> with?
> 
> --
> -- Skylar Thompson (skylar at cs.earlham.edu)
> -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
>

I think he wants a gui.  You could set up samba and there is support  
for it built in gnome and kde stuff already.  I don't use either, so I  
can't tell you much.

I would recomend you go to freshports.org and do some samba searchs to  
see if anything else you like pops up?



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