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Date:      Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:44:05 -0500
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: network freebsd computers
Message-ID:  <20090922184405.GB46344@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote:
> 
> I can find a virtual cornucopia of information on networking Windows
> machines; Microsoft even includes a wizard to accomplish it. However,
> there does not seem to be as much information regarding non-Windows
> products.

Perhaps because it is *harder* to network Windows than Unix?

Skimming this thread something I would suggest that may be falling
through the cracks is to unify your user accounts across all the
machines. No matter that user "joe" isn't supposed to be using a
particular machine do not reuse joe's userid on that machine.

Also reconsider the need to share all filesystems across all machines.
A typical Windows "network application" often runs client-fileserver
rather than client-server. When one can not remotely login to a
single-user Windows machine, filesharing band-aids that issue.
Multi-user Unix systems trivially allow remote logins including ftp and
scp file copying.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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