Used this guide to install samba for FreeBSD 8.2. The guide is old but was very useful. It worked perfect and now I can use any windows machine on the network, find the FreeBSD box, enter a users name/password and boom, I'm in. But that's not what I wanted to do.
I'm trying to allow any user who logs into the FreeBSD box the ability to see Windows shares in their home folder. All I could find were people who had problems after setting it up. Googling for how-to's is what led me to the guide I linked above.
- need to know how to add Windows shares to a single FreeBSD box.
- would like them to auto-mount on startup.
- Windows machine does have a username/password.
- would like Windows username/password saved for all FreeBSD users so I don't have to add extra users to Windows box.
- FreeBSD users only need to browse windows shares (and sub folders) with read permissions.
- both machines have static IPs and there's no local DNS.
- FreeBSD box is also running Apache22, ftp and ssh (not sure that matters?).
I'm just wondering if anyone has link that can help me as I find The FreeBSD Handbook doesn't really explain it enough for n00bs and the Samba HOW-TO collection is daunting and over technical for what I'm trying to do here.
Any advice?
Thanks!
I'm trying to allow any user who logs into the FreeBSD box the ability to see Windows shares in their home folder. All I could find were people who had problems after setting it up. Googling for how-to's is what led me to the guide I linked above.
- need to know how to add Windows shares to a single FreeBSD box.
- would like them to auto-mount on startup.
- Windows machine does have a username/password.
- would like Windows username/password saved for all FreeBSD users so I don't have to add extra users to Windows box.
- FreeBSD users only need to browse windows shares (and sub folders) with read permissions.
- both machines have static IPs and there's no local DNS.
- FreeBSD box is also running Apache22, ftp and ssh (not sure that matters?).
I'm just wondering if anyone has link that can help me as I find The FreeBSD Handbook doesn't really explain it enough for n00bs and the Samba HOW-TO collection is daunting and over technical for what I'm trying to do here.
Any advice?
Thanks!