From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 29 17:28:24 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 7B9EF16A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:28:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fe2.cluster1.echolabs.net (mail.atlanticbb.net [216.52.118.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F3143D41 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:28:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tommoyer@atlanticbb.net) X-Scanned-By: RAE MPP/ClamAV http://raeinternet.com/mpp X-Scanned-By: Scanned by MPP/ClamAV/SpamAssassin Received: from [68.114.85.228] (account tommoyer@atlanticbb.net HELO [192.168.1.102]) by fe2.cluster1.echolabs.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2b5) with ESMTP id 4199663 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:28:08 -0400 Message-ID: <40E1A6A2.6060001@atlanticbb.net> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:28:02 -0400 From: Thomas Moyer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: home directory questions 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: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:28:24 -0000 Is it possible to setup a file server with FreeBSD and use that as a home partition and also share other files on a small network? What kinds of utilities would I need to run? I imagine NFS for *nix clients and Samba for MS clients. Also possibly share printers with this computer as well. CUPS for that. Also what kind a minimum system reccomendations does anyone have? Thanks, Tom