Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:38:26 -0600 From: "Zane C. Bowers" <vvelox@vvelox.net> To: Ben Washington-Yule <benwy_01@yahoo.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sharing resources on LAN without NFS Message-ID: <20041215113826.3b08eea1@fennec.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <41C00955.9040707@yahoo.com.au> References: <41C00955.9040707@yahoo.com.au>
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 22:52:21 +1300 Ben Washington-Yule <benwy_01@yahoo.com.au> 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.
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