From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Dec 12 23:33:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C155D14E5E; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 23:33:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from psych ([203.41.44.154]) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA09034; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:32:46 +1100 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19991213183339.006e26a0@idx.com.au> X-Sender: dannyh@idx.com.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:33:51 +1100 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" , Martin Welk From: Danny Subject: LAN Questions. Cc: John , mw@sax.de, David Bein , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -Currently my network has 6 networks running Win 98 for the staff - It is shared on resource level like //danny/work, //danny/documentation - the printer is //accounts/canon - If I wanted to find out about sales stuff I might go to //sales/pricing I need something centralised so I can go //samba/documentation, //samba/accounts Then I want to install a TAPE drive to back things up Here are some of my proposal for the solution: - - Install Freebsd and NFS server. Get Freebsd to share the printer and the folders - I heard of some tool called Exalaber that can also do the job - Samba - to share files with Windows 98 and share printers with Windows 98 Question: - - Will Samba be able to solve all my problems? - If I configure Freebsd as a NFS server is it possible I can make Windows 98 a NFS client? - Maybe I better solution that may not involve Freebsd. Any advice will help alot. Thankss. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message