Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 11:09:45 -0700 From: jay.krell@cornell.edu To: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.x->4.1, my experience, Samba, dhcpd, ppp, nat, dns, named Message-ID: <004701c036d3$269c49f0$8001a8c0@jayk3>
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> it's all a matter of background knowledge
Yes, I agree somewhat.
I have a big background setting up NT clients.
I have never done large scale NT deployment, I only know in my little two
machine network that Win2k was easy.
I still take issue with how hard lone Unix systems are to get working. The
book "Phil and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing" describes it well I think.
Unix being really awful to setup and configure, but n machines being no
harder than one machine.
> /etc/rc.local vs. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dhcpd.sh
?so the right thing to do here is basically
rm /etc/rc.local
-- /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dhcpd.sh --
#!/bin/sh
#
# For example, in /etc/rc.conf put
# dhcpd_enable="YES"
# and optionally
# dhcpd_flags="-q"
# to not print out the verbose copyright message.
#
# Start Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Daemon, so
# that other machines on the local net don't need
# hardcoded IP address or DNS server addresses or anything.
#
if [ "X${dhcpd_enable}" = X"YES" ]; then
echo -n ' dhcpd'
${dhcpd_program-"/usr/local/sbin/dhcpd"} ${dhcpd_flags}
fi
-- /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dhcpd.sh --
I'll try that. I knew rc.local was obsolete but at the time it seemed the
easiest thing.
I noticed NetBSD includes isc dhcpd and they have a document up describing
very close to what I was after. They have a more complicated dhcpd.conf, but
still pretty sample. The wide-dhcp docs were talking about "relay agents"
and setting up two .conf files, I had no clue..
> starting Samba
I kind of thought perf was better in general running stuff under inetd,
fewer processes, but maybe that's only until the service is used. There's a
more general problem of installing ports/packages reporting a lot of stuff
you don't need to know, a little that you do need, and the scrollback on the
console being tiny, installing multiple things, etc.. I always set the
scrollback to 9999 on NT, should look into how that might be on on FreeBSD,
or use X and some xterm clone, or tee..
Some of my attempts at starting smbd and nmbd resulted in a bunch of nmbd
processes, like until problems set in, but I didn't bother to characterize
what I'd done.
- Jay
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