On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:52:21 +1300 Ben Washington-Yule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The handbook section on NFS was great but having only 3 computers I > don't feel the need to set up a client/server system. Nevertheless I > > would like to be able to share one printer and one cd-writer between > > these 3 machines. I'll be grateful even for just a shove towards the > > correct handbook chapter where this is explained. /me uses NFS for only two machines on his lan Well sharing a device can be done using geomgate. The problem with this making it play nicely... not more than one device can connect to it with write privileges. For this I would just use NFS and then ssh into that one machine and burn it from there. I would say NFS would be the simpleist solution... samba is workable, but authentication with it is a total PITA as it does not play nicely for using NIS or local authentication... only really supports LDAP and a newer and older samba passwd storage... So if you are running NIS on your lan, NFS is easy the way to go. For LDAP on the lan, I would say it is your personal choice between Samba and NFS. The handbook has a nice chapter on NIS and NFS. For printing, I would suggest reading the chapter in the handbook. It has some nice info on it. I would also suggest apsfilter, since it makes drivers nice to work with. There is also CUPS if you don't want to use the base lpd. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"