Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 01:15:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Joe Heuring <heyjoe@cts.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: post installation: leaf node, nfs, ftp, ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10104170057150.83466-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <20100414181820.D21523@Joe H>
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NFS you want only if you have one or more other computers running some variety of UNIX on the same local network. Then you can mount file systems from the second computer on the first (and vice-versa). The computer "sharing" a file system is the NFS server; the computer mounting the file systems is the client. If your other computers on the local network are Windows computers, you want SAMBA for file sharing. You install SAMBA so that your Windows computers can see files on your FreeBSD computer. If you want the computer running FreeBSD to have access to Windows "shares", you run sharity-lite or smbfs. All of these are available in ports. SAMBA includes smbclient, with which you can also print to a printer attached to a Windows computer (and do it well, with apsfilter, which knows how to use smbclient.) If you say "No" to the question about whether the computer will be a leaf node, it becomes a gateway that can forward packets. If your other computers were accessing the Internet through the computer running FreeBSD, it would need to be a gateway. You can enable this by putting gateway_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. If you do this during installation or afterward from /stand/sysinstall, I think the option is enabled immediately without rebooting--the equivalent of sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 You can type sysctl -a | grep forward to see if forwarding is enabled (1) or not (0). The equivalent of Shift Page Up is ScrollLock and the arrow keys. Press ScrollLock again to return to the prompt. Annelise On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Joe Heuring wrote: > I sent that off a little to quick. As far as NFS goes, I know what it is but not if I want it. I would like some kind of easy back up routine -not sure if that applies, and not sure if something like Samba might be more desireable. Mostly I'm just concerned about the leaf node question though. > > --------------------------------- > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:33:47PM -0700, Joe Heuring wrote: > > Just completed an ftp-install and am at the "User Confirmation Requested". > > > > My goal for this box is to make it a hobby webserver at home that does cgi and database stuff. Probably will not be an ftp server. I want it to be lean and secure. > > > > The first question asks if it will be a leaf node. After searching the FreeBSD site and Google, I still can not say exactly what a leaf node is, let alone if I want it. > > > > I know from previous installs that I'll be asked about NFS and the same applies. Can anyone point to some good basic reading on these. > > > > TIA > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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