From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 19:38:17 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 E5D9116A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:38:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from S2.cableone.net (smtp2.cableone.net [24.116.0.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849E643D60 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 19:38:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vvelox@vvelox.net) Received: from fennec.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net (unverified [24.119.123.89]) by S2.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S2) with ESMTP id 4129535 for multiple; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:52:54 -0700 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:38:26 -0600 From: "Zane C. Bowers" To: Ben Washington-Yule Message-ID: <20041215113826.3b08eea1@fennec.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <41C00955.9040707@yahoo.com.au> References: <41C00955.9040707@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.13 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net 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 19:38:18 -0000 On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:52:21 +1300 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. /me uses NFS for only two machines on his lan Well sharing a device can be done using geomgate. The problem with this making it play nicely... not more than one device can connect to it with write privileges. For this I would just use NFS and then ssh into that one machine and burn it from there. I would say NFS would be the simpleist solution... samba is workable, but authentication with it is a total PITA as it does not play nicely for using NIS or local authentication... only really supports LDAP and a newer and older samba passwd storage... So if you are running NIS on your lan, NFS is easy the way to go. For LDAP on the lan, I would say it is your personal choice between Samba and NFS. The handbook has a nice chapter on NIS and NFS. For printing, I would suggest reading the chapter in the handbook. It has some nice info on it. I would also suggest apsfilter, since it makes drivers nice to work with. There is also CUPS if you don't want to use the base lpd.