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Originally posted by charlie499
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