I wanted a centralized home storage system that could feed all my other toys. Data stored on this will include MySQL datafiles, our MP3 collection, website directories and all our receipts printed out in PDF format (Yay! CutePDF) among other things. And so the fun began… I did some test […]
FreeBSD Samba how-to based on the one at www.bsdvault.net. Some errors have been corrected (from the original at bsdvault.net), but please let us know if you find any in this version. 1) Install the Samba port cd /usr/ports/net/samba && make install 2) Read the files in /usr/local/share/doc/samba They will help […]
Printing from FreeBSD workstations to a Windows based print server without using Samba. I got fed up dinking with Samba in fairly short order, so this is the route I took. Enter CUPS (Common Unix Printing System). Works really well if you have no need for Netbios shares on your […]