From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Sep 11 20: 9:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from alexandria.thedial.com (alexandria.thedial.com [204.252.162.142]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2480D14C8C for ; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 20:09:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james@thedial.com) Received: from mukmuk.thedial.com ([204.252.162.131] helo=thedial.com) by alexandria.thedial.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11Q035-000LAR-00 for freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 11 Sep 1999 20:11:27 -0700 Message-ID: <37DB2ADE.ADC3DC04@thedial.com> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:23:58 -0700 From: james Organization: theDial < www.thedial.com > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Free-BSD Newbies Mailing List Subject: Re: like, way new newbie--like, way dumb newbie question References: <000201befca3$9fd52f50$dfdfdfdf@mojomatic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bob Cohen wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm contemplating the free-bsd plunge and I have a question > before proceeding. Can a free-bsd box be used as a file > server for a windows peer-to-peer network? > yes, it can. you'll want to look into samba (and perhaps NIS/NFS). a good reference/starting point would be "Samba: Integrating Unix & Windows" stay intact, james ---------------------------------------------------------------- james nigh systems administrator/webmaster icq 27459905 theDial "Broadcasting for the New World" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message