From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 07:23:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA14352 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 07:23:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com (uswgco2.uswest.com [206.196.133.74]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA14347 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 07:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) id IAA23429; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 08:22:34 -0600 (MDT) Received: from egate.mnet.uswest.com(151.116.23.138) by uswgco2.uswc.uswest.com via smap (V1.3) id sma023416; Thu Apr 11 08:22:19 1996 Received: from easthub (easthub.mnet.uswest.com [151.117.26.86]) by egate.mnet.uswest.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA28150; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 08:22:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: by easthub.mnet.uswest.com (M-Net Hub.951228) Received: from astro.acs.uswest.com by acs.uswest.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA21821; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:22:14 -0500 Received: from kermit by astro.acs.uswest.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA26835; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:22:04 -0500 Message-Id: <316D158B.4E9B@uswest.com> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:22:03 -0500 From: "Paul T. Root" Organization: !nterprise Networking Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.4 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian N. Handy" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Home network question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian N. Handy wrote: > > Hey again, > > I've got a question. At home, I want to have a PC running FreeBSD that's > connected to the net over a PPP link. > > Simultaneously...the same household will have a Mac and a printer. I > would like to be able to use the printer on both machines. It would be > nice to be able to trade files between both machines. So..... > > (a) Should I network the Mac to the FBSD box? How? Parallel port? > Could I then run CAP on the BSD box and have the printer on it, > visible to the Mac? If you don't have ethernet cards for both boxes, then ppp is the way to go. Probably serial. Does your Mac have a Parallel port? I doubt it. MacPPP 2.0.1 (I think it is) works quite well as a client. You can then setup CAP as a print server with lwsrv8 (I just did this on a SS5 with a SparcPrinter, it works great. The directions are lengthy, but follow them carefully and it does great). I haven't tried this, but aufs (in CAP) could probably let share files. > (b) Should I just get a switch for the printer and bag the network > idea entirely? Swapping files would be nice but not life > threatening. This is quick if the printer is up to it. You didn't say what type of printer it is. If its a Mac printer, it might be a localtalk only printer. Then you'd have to go the CAP route and use papif to filter lpd into appletalk. > I'd rather avoid any herioc efforts and just get the thing working for the > guy. Any opinions would be appreciated. Cap is much improved from 3-4 years ago. MacPPP is simple, and you apparently already have ppp going on FBSD box. Though, I don't know what kind of things you're going to run up against having the machine as a server and a client for ppp. > Thanks, > > Brian > handy@sag.space.lockheed.com Paul. -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: ptroot@uswest.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030