From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Sep 15 14:30:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f171.law3.hotmail.com [209.185.241.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9B7314BF9 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:30:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mycotropic@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 72384 invoked by uid 0); 15 Sep 1999 21:30:53 -0000 Message-ID: <19990915213053.72383.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 170.223.140.130 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:30:53 PDT X-Originating-IP: [170.223.140.130] From: "gregory kinney" To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: since it's a newbies list, here goes.... Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:30:53 EDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all - I live in a fractured Win95 environment; about 20 machines and at least 3 subnets. all we wanna do is have shared files and shared printers so that we aren't wandering around the office all day long carrying floppies, looking for the right printer. What I am doing (as head pain-in-the-ass) is setting up one user's machine (1994 IBM Aptiva; 486/66, 16m ram,2 ethernet cards and 2 * 500meg HDs with one running win95) don't ask, it's harvard and they wont pay for ANYTHING. I am currently waiting for VIEW to finish with the second boot floppy - you see, the 1994 IBM Aptiva will NOT boot from the CD..... What I THINK I am going to do is; set up one 500 meg HD as a BSD drive running samba, pluged into both subnets through the two ethernet cards - this should allow the users to remotely store files and access 'em from whatever machine is appropriate THEN I'll figure out some damn way to let 'em print remotely, sorta using the BSD machine as a printerrouter anyway - this is why i posted to the newbies list; is this idea idiotic? is there any way to make the 1/2 widows 1/2 BSD machine do both at the same time? will the users be able to print from their own machines? who knows - I'm TRYing though! greg kinney dept-o-rheumatology brigham and women's hospital boston ps - is THIS what the newbies mailserve is for! i think so! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message