From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 22 21:51:29 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 569641065676 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:51:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-102.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-102.bluehost.com [69.89.22.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 245D58FC0A for ; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:51:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20702 invoked by uid 0); 22 Sep 2009 21:51:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box543.bluehost.com) (74.220.219.143) by outboundproxy3.bluehost.com with SMTP; 22 Sep 2009 21:51:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=apotheon.com; h=Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID:Mail-Followup-To:References:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent:X-Identified-User; b=HftiKZN18UPcbi0Uv7siajBfkRBXIKveNmp4JxrMnns/frRbdLNGIhF+lF56dADePtecoSGB1AOFbAizT5xSGQP8Mekk3ELlAMYnn3VOFqzMCo+QCF88MNrGSsUe/pU0; Received: from c-24-8-180-234.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.180.234] helo=kukaburra.hydra) by box543.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MqDGf-0008Qj-IW for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:51:27 -0600 Received: by kukaburra.hydra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:44:16 -0600 Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:44:16 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090922214416.GB11305@guilt.Savvis> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <8DFC1B25-8AED-4CD1-ABDC-7A9DDF45C362@olivent.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {2737:box543.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.org} {sentby:smtp auth 24.8.180.234 authed with ren@apotheon.org} Subject: Re: network freebsd computers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:51:29 -0000 --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:12:48PM -0400, Carmel NY wrote: >=20 > Presently, I have Samba set up on my FreeBSD machines. Windows can > access the shared directories without any problems. I also have Putty > installed on the Windows machines so I can directly access the FreeBSD > boxes when required. >=20 > I want the same functionality between the FreeBSD boxes. Eventually, at > least one of them will be run headless; the mail server in particular. >=20 > I can find a virtual cornucopia of information on networking Windows > machines; Microsoft even includes a wizard to accomplish it. However, > there does not seem to be as much information regarding non-Windows > products. >=20 > At present, all machines are connected, either wired or wireless, > through a linksys router. Okay, so it sounds like you want to be able to do two things between your FreeBSD systems: 1. You want to be able to log into them remotely, as you do from MS Windows machines using PuTTY. This is trivially accomplished using a tool that is already installed on all your FreeBSD machines, unless you have a very abnormal install. It's called OpenSSH. Assuming you have either DHCP managing hostname resolution on your network or all the appropriate entries in your /etc/hosts file, you can log into remote machine bar as username foo like so: ssh foo@bar 2. You want to be able to access the remote filesystem as an extension of however you browse local filesystems (using Dolphin, Konqueror, the shell, whatever). To do this, you must mount the remote filesystem on the local system. To do *that*, you must have some kind of network filesystem software running -- a server on the remote machine, and a client on the local machine. NFS is the generally accepted "normal" way to do so on Unix systems. If you're using Samba on your FreeBSD machines anyway, you should be able to use Samba to do so between FreeBSD machines as well (and others in this discussion have mentioned some starting points for doing so). Another option is to use sshfs, which is a network filesystem tool that uses the SSH protocol to let you mount remote filesystems locally. Of course, depending on what you *actually* want to do from one moment to the next with your remote filesystem, you could use SCP and SFTP (part of the OpenSSH suite of remote access utilities) to transfer files back and forth. I use SSH and SCP quite extensively, and occasionally use sshfs (for things like using Herrie to play music on the local machine from a directory on a remote fileserver). I haven't had need for Samba for several years, because I just interact with MS Windows that much. Your mileage may vary. I hope this helps get you on the track to solving the problem. --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkq5RTAACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKUKHACgxCLEMG7gr6DuI5kznvCTgkCl RCoAoLBZu8nTzFpEmc/FAeTgY6B2K/vy =+3Q5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu--