From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 30 7:26:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mothra.martini.nu (12-224-18-46.client.attbi.com [12.224.18.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BB3137B403 for ; Thu, 30 May 2002 07:26:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 639 invoked by uid 1001); 30 May 2002 14:26:41 -0000 Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 07:26:40 -0700 From: Mahlon To: "Michael Hopkins, ACS Consultancy" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Talking to FreeBSD from OS X Message-ID: <20020530072511.A256@martini.nu> Mail-Followup-To: Mahlon , "Michael Hopkins, ACS Consultancy" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from "mhopkins@netmatters.co.uk" on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 10:48:32PM X-GPG-Fingerprint: 19B8 DDB3 0156 3A03 FA80 8278 C0BE 6BFB 3606 B267 X-Sysinfo: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, up 2 mins Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > (1) What would be required (after plugging a crossover cable between > network cards) to let the machines see each other & interact? By interact, I assume you mean filesharing. Because you are using OSX, you have a few options on the FreeBSD side of things. Option 1) Install Netatalk from the ports. Share files over appletalk. Option 2) Share your stuff via NFS, and setup NetInfo manager on OSX to automount the shares. Alias them to wherever (desktop, etc) for easy access. Option 3) If the code is in a CVS repository, just cvs checkout over the network, using the cvs pserver options. Option 4) Just login via ssh and do whatever work you want to via remote shell. Option 5) With some serious tweaking of both OSX and FreeBSD's default NIS makefile, you can use a FreeBSD NIS master to login to your OSX box, and have a shared homedir for yourself. (hint: as of OSX 10.1, DES passwords required, and no shadow passwords in NIS maps. Hopefully, we'll see some friendlier integration with NIS in the future.) > Will it all be as easy in reality as it sounds? Depends on what route you go. :) Generally, yes. If the boxes are pinging each other, then the hardest part is out of the way already. All of the solutions I mentioned above are outlined either in the FreeBSD handbook/faq, or can be found with a quick google search - most with step by step instructions. Mahlon E. Smith jabber id: mahlon@chat.martini.nu http://www.martini.nu/ get pgp key: mahlon-pgp@martini.nu .......................................................................... Shell that was once steak, Now hides the Jell-O pudding, It's the worst flavor. -Todd Harris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message