From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 22 19:35:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B108D10656A7 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:35:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from carmel_ny@hotmail.com) Received: from blu0-omc4-s20.blu0.hotmail.com (blu0-omc4-s20.blu0.hotmail.com [65.55.111.159]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 645E58FC27 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU0-SMTP45 ([65.55.111.137]) by blu0-omc4-s20.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:35:46 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [67.189.183.172] X-Originating-Email: [carmel_ny@hotmail.com] Message-ID: Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net ([67.189.183.172]) by BLU0-SMTP45.blu0.hotmail.com over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:35:46 -0700 Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (scorpio.seibercom.net [192.168.1.103]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: carmel_ny@) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 382A322862 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:35:45 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:35:44 -0400 From: Carmel NY To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20090922190844.GA86183@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20090922190844.GA86183@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Organization: seibercom.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Face: 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 X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2009 19:35:46.0511 (UTC) FILETIME=[E1B48DF0:01CA3BBB] Subject: Re: network freebsd computers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:35:47 -0000 On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:08:44 +0200 Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 01:39:53PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: > > Most of my networking experience is based on a Windows. Networking > > two or more PCs together in a Window's environment is easy. > > Unfortunately, I am not getting anywhere accomplishing the same > > with multiple FreeBSD machines. I can get them networked with > > Window's machines; however, not with each other. > > FYI, syncronizing files between FreeBSD and other UNIX-like systems > is quite easy with rsync [http://www.samba.org/rsync/]. This is also > quite easy to automate (e.g. running rsync from cron). I use rsync quite often. It is not relevant to this discussion however. > For simple and fast data exchange, nothing beats netcat. [nc(1)] > For remote backups I tend to pipe the output of dump(8) through netcat > on one machine, and pipe the output from a listening netcat on > another machine to a file. Suppose I want to backup machine 'foo' to > machine 'bar'. On 'bar' I would start the following command: > 'nc -l 65000 |bzip2 -c >foo-root-20090922.dump.bz2'. > On 'foo' I would then start the following command as root: > 'dump -0 -a -C 8 -L -u -f - /|nc bar 65000' Useful information; however, not relevant. > Typically I would be doing this sitting behind one of those machines > with the X window system running and a local terminal and a terminal > running ssh to the other machine open. I have not experimented with that yet. If needed, would I be able to run a program that required a GUI on the remote machine, or would I need to install and load all the "X" programs also? -- Carmel carmel@hotmail.com The person who marries for money usually earns every penny of it.