From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 3 15:27:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA2E116A4CF; Mon, 3 May 2004 15:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B2343D2D; Mon, 3 May 2004 15:27:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (pa-plum1c-102.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.179.102]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F8F69A71; Mon, 3 May 2004 18:27:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4096C71A.6030009@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 18:26:34 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040422 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Moriarty References: <243F1870-9D3D-11D8-A28A-0003938AA46E@avid.com> In-Reply-To: <243F1870-9D3D-11D8-A28A-0003938AA46E@avid.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using FreeBSD disconnected on a notebook X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 22:27:58 -0000 Stephen Moriarty wrote: > I'm trying to configure FreeBSD on my notebook such that when it's > docked at the office, I'm able to take advantage of networked resources > - NIS, amd, NFS. When I'm away, I want to selectively, and preferably > automatically, take advantage of the more limited network resources, > which usually includes none of the previous examples. Surely, someone > else has already solved this. The only reference I found were relative > to email. > > At this point, my thought is to disable the above network services until > after I've logged in, but this precludes the use of NIS to login. I > would have to always login to a local account. I don't have all the answers to the questions you raise, but one thing you can do it set this machine up as an NIS slave server. It's fairly low on resource usage, and will allow you to log in using NIS even when you're connected to no network at all. Only when it can find a master will it pull down replication of user information. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com