From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 31 09:34:14 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AFD7106566C for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:34:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 668FA8FC1C for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:34:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:fa1e:dfff:feda:c0bb]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id pBV9Y9GI064472 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:34:09 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.4.1 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk pBV9Y9GI064472 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infracaninophile.co.uk; s=201001-infracaninophile; t=1325324049; bh=wGOUajwgJ+rs4MdCjm978PJBnZuw6lNktwzf/1A00ao=; h=Message-ID:Date:From:MIME-Version:To:Subject:References: In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Cc; b=MlmLQB+JGMgoHJ/qX2qhbLiE2NMaNii+eB8JIzDn2+poEojIEnK2ISM+bnzJxNLBo YoF5fsjhfW2jaaDVimpl/55oBVs3fd6J0aIx8AFaymzRrKQeOj2YfFLtrvimzkh/mt shMI6LtkaRtNcAgRCAXwVkxzNtjcQSX1k0D1BUp0= Message-ID: <4EFED70A.8080005@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:34:02 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 OpenPGP: id=60AE908C Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigAB0C366C0D29814A54B079CF" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: very small network X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:34:14 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigAB0C366C0D29814A54B079CF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 31/12/2011 04:12, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: > I bought into FreeBSD with a DVD of PC-BSD. It's great, but the PC-BSD= > user manual is not up to the level of the FreeBSD manual. In the latte= r I > have found, as you all suggested, all the necessary information. >=20 > I haven't set the network up yet but I expect to be able to run both se= rver > and client NFS on each machine to enable networking both ways. They ar= e > all laptops of one sort or another (Asus eee, Toshiba Satellite, late > model Sony Vaio) and it sort of depends on where I sit which machine n= eeds > to be client and which server, if that makes any sense. Perfect sense. One thing I'd expect PC-BSD to have (or at least to make easy to enable) is Apple-esque zeroconf networking. That means you should be able to plug a new build machine into your network, and it will discover other machines on the net and give you the ability to mount filesystems, or print to attached printers, and all without having a designated central controlling server. I take it this is the sort of thing you mean by setting up your network? This is a very attractive model as it is very simple from the user point of view. You don't necessarily need to have any dedicated servers, although such things as a DHCP server are still useful (I suspect your broadband router probably has that function). On the other hand, it is probably a bit harder to set up than a strict client-server setup with dedicated servers. The key software requirement here is to set up multicast DNS. There are a number of packages in the ports to do this -- mDNSresponder, howl, but what I'd recommend is avahi as it is best integrated with other software packages. For the shared networking thing, you can use samba between FreeBSD machines, but you'll need to build samba from ports since the AVAHI option isn't enabled by default. 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