From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 0:34:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6C837B416 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 00:34:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16JW00-0006P5-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 08:34:48 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (Postfix, from userid 500) id 18FD2116F; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:34:46 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 09:34:46 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD List Subject: General question about Samba Message-ID: <20011227083446.GA19094@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I want to set up a new box here to act as a print server and an online backup system for some networked Windows machines. I have never used Samba before but am I right in presuming this is the best (only) solution for this. Secondly, slightly more complicated question. I want to use it to backup a small amount of data, but on a regular basis from a remote Windows machine. There are two options - via the Internet (cheapest, since the box is in another city) or I could set up a modem for the windows box to dial into and transfer it that way. Any suggestions or recommendations ? Thanks. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message