From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 9 7:46:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlins.force9.net (merlins.force9.net [195.166.128.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B04A914D3F for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 07:46:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) Received: (qmail 5127 invoked from network); 9 Oct 1999 14:46:26 -0000 Received: from mayfly.plus.net.uk (HELO mayfly.force9.net) (195.166.128.28) by merlins.force9.net with SMTP; 9 Oct 1999 14:46:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 4476 invoked from network); 9 Oct 1999 14:46:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk) (212.56.122.89) by mayfly.plus.net.uk with SMTP; 9 Oct 1999 14:46:25 -0000 Message-ID: <37FF55A3.C3DBDB22@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 15:48:03 +0100 From: Richard Morte Organization: Sinclair Associates X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: FreeBSD Server and Windows Clients Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have been trying over the past month to set up the FreeBSD box to provide networking facilities to a number of PCs running Windows 95/98. I have lots of 'bits' working but have yet to achieve a fully usable system. The aims are modest: * Set up a unix server to drive the local Windows network, allow file transfers, print sharing, etc, possibly even backups if I can find a suitable application. * Provide a intranet to provide a local test-bed for clients' web pages, run cgi scripts, etc, without having to upload to the ISP to do this. * Gateway to the Internet for the unix and win boxes. I have about 80% of each aspect working OK but am running into problems. I configure one bit, but this then impacts on other areas and I'm beginning to chase my own tail. I think I need a perspective on which bits to include, which ones to ignore and how to get everything working as a coherent design. If anyone has succesfully configured a similar system would you mind letting me know how you did it, which processes you run and how you glued the whole thing together? Here's what I have so far: Private network using 192.168.xxx.xxx - no problems Graphics with kde desktop - configured OK SAMBA - working extremely well Sharity Light to mount dos shares - happy with this too DNS - no reported errors but still problems with IP-assigned addresses. Still not sure about best TTL values, though. Modem - working well with good connection speeds  User-ppp - OK but DNS lookups still cause unexpected dial-outs (have disabled -auto mode temporarily) Sendmail - still trying to access fake 10.0.0.1 address Apache 1.3.6 (using name-virtual hosting) - works fine from within FreeBSD but wins clients can't yet access Firewall - I guess I need one - especially with the wins shares visible on the Unix box, but the thought of setting one up terrifies me. E-mail - use Netscape to fetch own account from ISP POP server, but not sure how this will work across the gateway for the wins clients. If you can provide any useful pointers, suggestions, inspiration or examples of how you did it I shall be eternally grateful. If anyone can tell me which bits of the software I definately don't need, this will be useful too. Many thanks for your help in the past, Ric To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message