From FreeBSD how could I access files/directories in my Windows XP machine (networked) Is there any program in FreeBSD/Unix that I could use to emulate/control my Windows XP machine and what do I need to enable or install in my Windows XP machine

'man mount'. Basically, you want to mount your winblowz XP partition in an empty directory. Depending on whether the fs type is fat32 or ntfs, you may have a slight problem. ntfs support is only read-only.

I used Samba to mount my windows parition on my linux box.

@ cerberusofhate

(Mount) The Windows XP box is on a network separate from the box where FreeBSD 4.6-Stable is installed.

@ Luftwaffe

Samba, please kindly guide me where to download a compatible version for FreeBSD 4.6-Stable as I want to fiddle around this matter and does Samba allow you to administer/control your Windows XP Professional what I mean by control is accessing files/browse/reboot/re-start services as in example: I would install FreeBSD 4.6 on a laptop and perform a remote administration of say a server or my home PC (or just the scenario now that I have two machines and I want to be able to control the other).

Install samba from the ports tree (if you opted to install when seting up FreeBSD. Chances are you did).

cd /usr/ports/net/samba

Then

make all && make install

And it will should be downloaded, patched and installed.

I also installed swat so that I could manage samba shares from a web interface.

For more information go over to www.samba.org.

Here is another link with a short tutorial

Thanks Auswipe,

My next query would be what is more advantageous use/setup FreeBSD as my internet/proxy server to allow my Windows XP Prof to connect to the internet or vice-versa and is this already supported in SAMBA or do I need another set of bins/programs to do this.

nb: I have 2 machines and I only have one modem, I have them on the network with 4 users (at home, apartment shared) and would want to give them access to the internet using one account and plan to surf all at the same time, I guess FreeBSD is powerpacked enough to do this.

I use OpenBSD at the house but this should be a trivial task for your FreeBSD box as long as it is properly setup. ipfw comes with FreeBSD by default but you can also use ipf. I use ipf under OpenBSD and have been fairly happy with it's performance and configuration.