From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 13:14:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663FE37B419 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:14:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from 66-44-57-96.s350.tnt2.lnhva.md.dialup.rcn.com ([66.44.57.96] helo=sten.alder.net) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #10) id 161wVW-00008r-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 08 Nov 2001 16:14:42 -0500 Received: by sten.alder.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:14:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:14:31 -0500 From: "Bob Hall" To: freebsd Subject: Re: mac/pc Message-ID: <20011108161430.B430@starpower.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd References: <20011108141050.A37133@grumpy.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011108141050.A37133@grumpy.dyndns.org>; from dkelly@hiwaay.net on Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:10:50PM -0600 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 On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:10:50PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:33:41PM +0000, Shawn O'Bryhim wrote: > > I am interested in sing freebsd but have a few questions. I have a PC with > > Windos 98 on it and a Toshiba laptop with windows 95. My husband has a MAC. > > We have a DSL connection for the internet and would like to be able to use > > the connection on both his MAC and my PC at the same time. If I were to put > > freebsd on my laptop and use that for my internet purposes only, would we be > > able to create a network between my laptop, his MAC and my PC with freebsd? > > I hope this is not too confusing. > > Others have mentioned Samba and NetAtalk as "needed to connect Mac/PC". > For nothing but an internet connection this is not true. The only reason > you might need Samba and/or NetAtalk is to use the FreeBSD machine as a > fileserver for Windows (Samba) or Macintosh (NetAtalk). If you have both > configured to use the same disk space then the Mac and PC can share > files located on the FreeBSD machine. I have an old 133 MHz 486 which > serves perfectly for this task. In addition, you don't need two ethernet cards for an Internet gateway. One will work. Bob Hall -- Know thyself? Absurd direction! Bubbles bear no introspection. -Khushhal Khan Khatak To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message