From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 18 18:38:27 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F48837B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:38:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.acuson.com (ac17859.acuson.com [157.226.71.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98B3743F75 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:38:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DavidJohnson@Siemens.com) Received: from mvaexch02.acuson.com (mvaexch02.acuson.com [157.226.230.209]) by thor.acuson.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HAJ003H9BA1KH@thor.acuson.com> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:37:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by mvaexch02.acuson.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:30:30 -0800 Received: from dhcp-46-133.acuson.com ([157.226.46.133]) by mvaexch01.acuson.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id Y2R0QC9T; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:31:51 -0800 Content-return: allowed Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:37:52 -0800 From: Johnson David Subject: Re: Ports & Sources Server In-reply-to: <001501c2d7bc$b4790a10$0201a8c0@barney> To: Terry J Dunlap Jr Cc: FreeBSD Newbies Message-id: <200302181837.52238.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Organization: Siemens Medical Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <000901c2d799$5be5f340$0201a8c0@barney> <3E52E0FC.3040708@rogers.com> <001501c2d7bc$b4790a10$0201a8c0@barney> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tuesday 18 February 2003 06:14 pm, Terry J Dunlap Jr wrote: > NFS is new to me. In addition to the handbook and "FreeBSD > Unleashed", any other sources you might suggest for learning NFS? > > I see that O'Reilly publishes "Managing NFS and NIS." Is this > overkill for what I'm trying to achieve? Probably overkill for your situation. All you need is an NFS server running on the "ports" machine, and NFS clients on the others. If this network is exposed to the public, then you'll need to take care that you properly secure NFS. Taking a quick look at freebsddiary, I see that there's an article there at . Amazingly enough, the author is using NFS for a ports tree. FreeBSD Diary is your friend in need! David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message