From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 22 13:59:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA18924 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA18845 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 13:59:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA18617; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:58:43 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:58:42 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Francisco Reyes cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: How to make wan? In-Reply-To: <199806220414.VAA24751@newsguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A better solution might be Samba, which provides file/printer sharing services for Windows networks. And it's free and included both in the packages and ports. On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Francisco Reyes wrote: > --NOTE: For those not familiar with the product netcon, it allows > Dos, Win95 and NT computers access FreeBSD as a file server using > IPX. > > I am considering to use Netcom for a small Lan, however I will need > to have computers in different locations access a server. I was told > by the makers of netcom I would need an IPX router. Couldn't I use > something like NFS to remotely mount a directory? > > Basically what I have in mind is: > -Netcom on location A > -Netcom on location B > -Mount directory from location A on location B > -Give access to users in location B to remotely mapped directory > using netcon. > > Any better approaches/suggestions? > I am thinking of netcon because the users will be connected using > Dos, win95 and possibly NT in the near future. > > What would be a secure way of doing this? Could one computer dial > directly to the server to mount a directory? Could this be done > safely through the internet? > -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message