Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:26:10 -0500 From: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" <daleco@daleco.biz> To: <b0w3n@attbi.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can I and where to learn how? Message-ID: <005301c272f6$c5ba5700$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> References: <000001c272e1$46e86a80$020aa8c0@morpheous>
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From: "bowen" <b0w3n@attbi.com>
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Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:52 PM
Subject: Can I and where to learn how?
> Hi I've been going through the handbook and the faq's and wondering
how
> or if it's possible to do the following
>
Yep to most from my POV. Comments inline...
> 1_) I'd like to use my FreeBSD 4.7 to act as the home to 3 windows
> machines my documents folder.
Samba. www.samba.org for more details. It's in the ports I'm quite
sure....
> 2_) I'd like to use it for my WWW server
Apache, chosen by 2/3 of the entire WWW. www.apache.org, in
the ports, lots of apache users round here (and everywhere, as I
said...
two-thirds!!)
> 3_) I'd like to use it for my FTP server
FTP is built in; some people like to keep that one disabled
and install something different. As with #1 and #2 above,
it's great. A quote from www.freebsd.org :
"makes an ideal internet/intranet server." (or something
like that, quoted by memory here.)
> 4_) I have 1 fat32 drive that I want to use for the windows
machines my
> documents folders? So how do I mount them in say /home dir? And
then use
> Samba to share those? And can I set permissions and ownership of
each
> sub directory within the /home/backup mount??
>
Good question. FBSD can read NTFS, I think, but I don't think
it speaks FAT. (I could be wrong here.) I've never tried mounting
a Windoze HDD in a FBSD box, can't think of why I'd want to, although
I guess you don't want to have to find a place to store all that
stuff while
you newfs a UFS volume. You might try googling for more info...
Or, trim your email to just that question and ask again....
> 5_) I have one UFS? Default Freebsd drive mounted in /home/www for
the
> web server. Just wondering if that's a good place to have it or
should I
> mount it somewhere else?
>
Apache doesn't care as long as the config is OK.
> 6_) I have a raid system formatted fat32 for my ftp server which I
need
> to access from one windows machine to manage the files and
directories
> within? Part two of this question is this when I had it on windows
2000
> I used Guildftpd as my ftp server dameon and I was wondering what
would
> be a good ftp server to use on freebsd?
>
Well, since FTP is understood (more or less, let's not open that can
of worms)
by M$oft, you can manage via the ftp shell, right? Or, do as many
do, and run
the FBSD box from Windows via telnet or SSH (SSH *much* preferred...)
The stock ftpd is OK IMO. If you want RAID, you'll need to check out
vinum, or one of the other RAID managers in the ports system, or find
a 3rd
party app to handle the disks.
> I know this is probably a crazy attempt but I like Freebsd a lot. I
have
> rebuilt my Kernel already lol and got a good install, if I'm mental
> thinking I can use this for all that please just let me know... was
just
> trying to find an alternative to windows
>
> TIA for any and all help
>
You're welcome!
> Rick
Kevin Kinsey,
DaleCo, S.P.
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