Samba and Windows File Sharing
FTP and NFS are good for communicating and sharing files between two UNIX machines. But the fact is that this is a Windows world, and no matter what kind of network environment your machine will be in, it will probably be surrounded by Windows machines. If you want to share files with your Windows using friends, you're going to have to play by their rules.
Fortunately, FreeBSD has the capability to do Windows-style file sharing with all the functionality that a Windows machine would have. Specifically, it has Samba, a software package that allows a UNIX machine to appear to be just another Windows machine on the local network; Windows machines can connect to it just as they would to another Windows machine. Samba ...
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