Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 09:14:01 +1000 (EST) From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au> To: "Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica" <compland@ism.com.br> Cc: Nick Liu <nickliu@netcom.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Networking my PCs Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960625090833.2688A-100000@wedge.its.utas.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199606241345.KAA13914@unix1.ism.com.br>
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On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica wrote: > Hi: > > Try the SAMBA package. It comes in the ports collection, on the CD. It > will permit you to share printers and disks between your FBSD box and the Win95 > box. Samba is very good and works nicely. > > regards, > Helio. > > >I've posted the question to comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc already but no one > >responded to me, and I do need this answered. So, pleeeeease HELP? > > > >I have a FBSD box (2.1) and another PC that runs Win95. I have only one > >modem and I have read it somewhere that I can use FBSD as a gateway between > >computers. > >Both PCs have NE2000 compatible cards and the FBSD box is able to detect the > >card. I would greatly apprecaite any help from you. > > > >LIVE LONG AND PROSPER. > > > > > > Samba is great for file and printer sharing but if you also want to connect both machines to an ISP via a single modem I have found for web browsing, news etc. a nice solution is to run a proxy web server on the FreeBSD machine and use a client such as Netscape to do the browsing on the Windows machine. I have been using the harvest cached for this purpose with no problems, but I believe that the squid cached has replaced this now. For telnet you might need to run something like socks on the BSD box and a socks telnet client. cheers, Carey ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================
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