From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 13:28:49 2002 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 12D9E37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:28:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D8B943E4A for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 13:28:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daleco@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.226.28] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id A724B1CD0094; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:27:16 -0500 Message-ID: <005301c272f6$c5ba5700$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" To: , References: <000001c272e1$46e86a80$020aa8c0@morpheous> Subject: Re: Can I and where to learn how? Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:26:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 From: "bowen" To: Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:52 PM Subject: Can I and where to learn how? > Hi I've been going through the handbook and the faq's and wondering how > or if it's possible to do the following > Yep to most from my POV. Comments inline... > 1_) I'd like to use my FreeBSD 4.7 to act as the home to 3 windows > machines my documents folder. Samba. www.samba.org for more details. It's in the ports I'm quite sure.... > 2_) I'd like to use it for my WWW server Apache, chosen by 2/3 of the entire WWW. www.apache.org, in the ports, lots of apache users round here (and everywhere, as I said... two-thirds!!) > 3_) I'd like to use it for my FTP server FTP is built in; some people like to keep that one disabled and install something different. As with #1 and #2 above, it's great. A quote from www.freebsd.org : "makes an ideal internet/intranet server." (or something like that, quoted by memory here.) > 4_) I have 1 fat32 drive that I want to use for the windows machines my > documents folders? So how do I mount them in say /home dir? And then use > Samba to share those? And can I set permissions and ownership of each > sub directory within the /home/backup mount?? > Good question. FBSD can read NTFS, I think, but I don't think it speaks FAT. (I could be wrong here.) I've never tried mounting a Windoze HDD in a FBSD box, can't think of why I'd want to, although I guess you don't want to have to find a place to store all that stuff while you newfs a UFS volume. You might try googling for more info... Or, trim your email to just that question and ask again.... > 5_) I have one UFS? Default Freebsd drive mounted in /home/www for the > web server. Just wondering if that's a good place to have it or should I > mount it somewhere else? > Apache doesn't care as long as the config is OK. > 6_) I have a raid system formatted fat32 for my ftp server which I need > to access from one windows machine to manage the files and directories > within? Part two of this question is this when I had it on windows 2000 > I used Guildftpd as my ftp server dameon and I was wondering what would > be a good ftp server to use on freebsd? > Well, since FTP is understood (more or less, let's not open that can of worms) by M$oft, you can manage via the ftp shell, right? Or, do as many do, and run the FBSD box from Windows via telnet or SSH (SSH *much* preferred...) The stock ftpd is OK IMO. If you want RAID, you'll need to check out vinum, or one of the other RAID managers in the ports system, or find a 3rd party app to handle the disks. > I know this is probably a crazy attempt but I like Freebsd a lot. I have > rebuilt my Kernel already lol and got a good install, if I'm mental > thinking I can use this for all that please just let me know... was just > trying to find an alternative to windows > > TIA for any and all help > You're welcome! > Rick Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message