From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Aug 22 6:57:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B20A37B424 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:57:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds29-115.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.115.29] with ESMTP id PAA12251 (8.8.5/1.13); Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:57:14 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00498; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:52:30 GMT (envelope-from janko@parmenides.utp.net) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:52:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Janko van Roosmalen To: John Daniel Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: large drives In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, John Daniel wrote: > I have a couple of large 20gig ATA66 drive on a new system i'm building . If you are using an older system which does not recognize disks > 8 gig you should turn off LBA mode in the BIOS. The BIOS will only see the disk as 504 MB but FreeBSD will see the whole disk. > I'd like to hear some discussion of the best way to partition them for a > fileserver on a small mixed network.( nt ,macs, and linux) If a couple means 2, I would put the base sytem on the first and "/home", "/www","/var" and "/tmp" on the second. > > the ultimate goal is the be able to share files and video ( my friend has > three kids and the grandparents are in Hong Kong and he would like to > eventually have the view his home video over the internet.) > > Any of you guys have any experience with the tools that would let you do > that kind of thing. > > My best guess is Samba for fileserving over a secure shell. > and apache with ssl and a passwords for the video. If you never used SAMBA before I can recommend the "SAMBA black book" published by Coriolis. It gave me the necessary Window's networking know-how in order to configure Samba on a small Win98 network. www.samba.org has another SAMBA book on-line. Recently there was a thread in either freebsd-questions or freebsd-stable about setting up fileserving for Mac's > > But I'd like to hear from somebody who has played with this sort of thing. > Sorry, I have not, Janko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message