From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 4 15:42:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D4116A4CE for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 15:42:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fidel.freesurf.fr (fidel.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C799443D45 for ; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 15:42:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olivier@gautherot.net) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (62-240-243-47.adsl.claranet.fr [62.240.243.47]) by fidel.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AE092A6DE9; Sat, 4 Dec 2004 16:42:49 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41B1DAFC.9040801@gautherot.net> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 16:42:52 +0100 From: Olivier User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041201) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xian References: <41AEC1E8.5060402@telus.net> <41AF3D27.5090505@daleco.biz> <41B0ABCF.5030703@gautherot.net> <200412032358.39196.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> In-Reply-To: <200412032358.39196.ml-freebsd-newbies@codepad.net> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040204030100060907090006" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports to cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:42:53 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040204030100060907090006 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Xian! >>What about mapping /usr/ports on a second computer via NFS? >> >> > >I tried that and found that chmod didn't work on NFS. Other remote filesystems >like SMB might work if they allow chmod. >You might be able to do something with having the ports collection on CD and >mounting it as union. > > NFS should work but there are requirements: you have to use the same UID for each user (if you declare user xian as UID 2003, you must declare it with the same number on each system). NFS is widely used across companies and such a constraint would have been long overcome if it were the case! Dedicated file servers would be useless. You may think of an NIS server to help on this - but it may be a killer if you just use it in your living room ;-) Cheers Olivier --------------040204030100060907090006--