Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:14:31 -0500 From: "Bob Hall" <rjhalljr@starpower.net> To: freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mac/pc Message-ID: <20011108161430.B430@starpower.net> In-Reply-To: <20011108141050.A37133@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:10:50PM -0600 References: <B8102C25.1E2%antiquitas@earthlink.net> <20011108141050.A37133@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:10:50PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:33:41PM +0000, Shawn O'Bryhim wrote: > > I am interested in sing freebsd but have a few questions. I have a PC with > > Windos 98 on it and a Toshiba laptop with windows 95. My husband has a MAC. > > We have a DSL connection for the internet and would like to be able to use > > the connection on both his MAC and my PC at the same time. If I were to put > > freebsd on my laptop and use that for my internet purposes only, would we be > > able to create a network between my laptop, his MAC and my PC with freebsd? > > I hope this is not too confusing. > > Others have mentioned Samba and NetAtalk as "needed to connect Mac/PC". > For nothing but an internet connection this is not true. The only reason > you might need Samba and/or NetAtalk is to use the FreeBSD machine as a > fileserver for Windows (Samba) or Macintosh (NetAtalk). If you have both > configured to use the same disk space then the Mac and PC can share > files located on the FreeBSD machine. I have an old 133 MHz 486 which > serves perfectly for this task. In addition, you don't need two ethernet cards for an Internet gateway. One will work. Bob Hall -- Know thyself? Absurd direction! Bubbles bear no introspection. -Khushhal Khan Khatak To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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