From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 11:32:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9756616A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:32:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 88A9A43D5E for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:32:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ph.schulz@gmx.de) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Dec 2004 11:32:02 -0000 Received: from dsl-082-082-076-038.arcor-ip.net (EHLO [192.168.1.4]) (82.82.76.38) by mail.gmx.net (mp024) with SMTP; 15 Dec 2004 12:32:02 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1954550 Message-ID: <41C020A7.8050305@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:31:51 +0100 From: Phil Schulz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040830 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Washington-Yule References: <41C00955.9040707@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <41C00955.9040707@yahoo.com.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing resources on LAN without NFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:32:04 -0000 Ben Washington-Yule wrote: > The handbook section on NFS was great but having only 3 computers I > don't feel the need to set up a client/server system. Nevertheless I > would like to be able to share one printer and one cd-writer between > these 3 machines. I'll be grateful even for just a shove towards the > correct handbook chapter where this is explained. > Ben, maybe I'm overlooking sth obvious, but I think you'll always need a client/server setup in this case. The server needs to serve the resource, i.e. the printer or the CD-writer, to its clients, the other PCs on your network. If you are only running Unix-like operating systems on your PCs, I think NFS is the simplest solution, provided that the network isn't directly reacheable from the internet. If you need to share resources with windows, you'll need to run samba. It is all described in chapter 23 of the handbook. Kind regards, Phil.