LisaJill Posted April 12, 2004 Posted April 12, 2004 Hi everyone =) I am looking for some very patient, kind soul that is willing to hold my hand through getting my newly installed freebsd box on to my home network, for the express purpose of internet access. I have some experience working with solaris, all shell, and I've gone with kde on the freebsd box. It's up and running and its beautiful and fast and happy. I just don't even know where to start on networking it. There are 6 computers (all xp) on this network, so re-arranging the network itself is out of the question; I somehow have to make this talk to the existing one. If anyone wants to undertake this, let me know. I'm not sure what information I need to supply to even get this started; which is part of why I'm undertaking this, to learn. I'll understand if everyone is scared off *grins* If anyone even has a clear, concise tutorial, that will work. I'm still in the process of perusing google but I think my eyes are about to fall out. Quote
borfast Posted April 12, 2004 Posted April 12, 2004 I've never used FreeBSD apart from tinkering a bit with some friends' computers that use it. Perhaps Rob can help you here, since he's dumped Windows for FreeBSD a few weeks ago. Rob, you there? Quote
TCH-Rob Posted April 12, 2004 Posted April 12, 2004 Never fear, I are here. Well, sort of. I havent tried to network it yet to my wifes Win machine. I start here for my FreeBSD learnin' http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 Scroll to the bottom and it has walkthroughs for sharing filesystems and networking. Quote
LisaJill Posted April 12, 2004 Author Posted April 12, 2004 Thank you, Rob! I will give this walkthrough a shot today. I'm really enjoying playing with this; I had missed access to unix and gotten rusty with it. It's too important a skill to me to lose and I had this spare pc just calling out for help, you see? Quote
LisaJill Posted April 12, 2004 Author Posted April 12, 2004 Well, it has internet access. Except that it can't resolve domains. Funny thing is I got it running from sysinstall, but everytime I reboot it loses it and wants to re-set it up. I can get to any ip address but after that its not working. It wants me to add a domain too; which may be the problem, since I'm not - that machine doesn't actually have a domain associated with it... *goes back to the tutorials* Quote
LisaJill Posted April 12, 2004 Author Posted April 12, 2004 All resolved. I didn't have a resolv.conf; the folks at the freebsd-questions mailing list had me sorted in under an hour. So neat *grins* Thanks everyone =) Quote
LisaJill Posted April 12, 2004 Author Posted April 12, 2004 *blushes* I learned a long time ago that not asking questions is a sure way to frustration and not fixing things. Quote
borfast Posted April 12, 2004 Posted April 12, 2004 Glad you found the way, Lisa! Another soul set free from the oppression of M$ Quote
stevevan Posted April 13, 2004 Posted April 13, 2004 Lisa: Here are some links to check out (if you haven't already) and add to your favorites menu: freebsd diary FreeBSD Cheatsheets The latter was a HUGE help for me when I was running FreeBSD before I switched to Linux. Quote
LisaJill Posted April 13, 2004 Author Posted April 13, 2004 thank you for those links. I'll definitely be looking over those. If you have the time; could you tell me why you switched to linux? I'm just curious about the different variants. =) Quote
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