From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 17 22:52:02 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA00169 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 22:52:02 -0700 Received: from gargamel.ptw.com (duane@gargamel.ptw.com [204.178.60.5]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA00163 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 22:52:01 -0700 Received: (from duane@localhost) by gargamel.ptw.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id WAA08184; Sat, 17 Jun 1995 22:51:28 -0700 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 22:51:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Duane Ellison To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: BSD file server? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Okay, I know this is going to be a VERY stupid question but I have not seen any information which has answered this question in any of the FAQ's. Or at least if it did I didn't understand it. So here's the question? Is it possible to use a FreeBSD box as a "file server" for other PCs? What I am thinking of doing is having my FreeBSD box sit off in the corner running away, checking for mail and stuff like that whenever it feels like it (I do not have a dedicated link) and I would use the other PCs (Desktop & notebook) to connect through that via LAN cards running Windows. Now I suppose that I could just set up a serial PPP session and do pretty much the same thing but I was just wondering if I could connect via the LAN cards. Thanks in advance for any ideas or points in the right location for better information (or something to re-read... Duane... ____________________________________________________________________________ Duane Ellison duane@gargamel.ptw.com Edwards, CA 73514.1502@compuserve.com http://gargamel.ptw.com/~duane