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From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au>
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To: "Helio Coelho Jr. - CompuLand Informatica" <compland@ism.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Networking my PCs
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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

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