Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 19:45:37 +1000 From: "Don Hansford" <donh@halenet.com.au> To: <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: since it's a newbies list, here goes.... Message-ID: <006d01beff5f$1151c4a0$6c2137cb@igor> References: <19990915213053.72383.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Let us know how you get on. I'm looking at using my daughters' (98) box as a print server later. Since I built it, I might as well get some use out of it! Regards Igor Double your drive space - delete Windows! ----- Original Message ----- From: gregory kinney <mycotropic@hotmail.com> To: <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 1999 7:30 AM Subject: since it's a newbies list, here goes.... > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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