OSX and Freebsd : what could be a good setup

2004-04-02 Thread Panna
I've purchased a new emac with OSX 10.3. It's soon to arrive and so I'm thinking about a good way of interacting the emac - which will be my main desktop - with my 5.2.1 server. Until now I used a windows laptop with xp and the files where shared with samba. So I thought that using an unixoid os

Re: OSX and Freebsd : what could be a good setup

2004-04-02 Thread ander Sendzimir
Sven, I have PowerBook G4 running OS X 10.3.3 and a dual AMD Athlon system running FBSD 4.9-STABLE. I regularly mount partitions via NFS between these machines without a problem. With permissions set properly drag-n-drop works great. Alex On Apr 2, 2004, at 4:23 AM, Panna wrote: I've

Re: OSX and Freebsd : what could be a good setup

2004-04-02 Thread Peter Risdon
Panna wrote: I've purchased a new emac with OSX 10.3. It's soon to arrive and so I'm thinking about a good way of interacting the emac - which will be my main desktop - with my 5.2.1 server. Until now I used a windows laptop with xp and the files where shared with samba. So I thought that

Re: OSX and Freebsd : what could be a good setup

2004-04-02 Thread Doug Poland
Panna wrote: I've purchased a new emac with OSX 10.3. ...snip... The freebsd server should act as mail and news-server and also as file server. Do I have to put the data on a fat32-slice? no, use nfs If I setup a nfs-mount on the freebsd server and copy data from OSX to it, is the data

Re: OSX and Freebsd : what could be a good setup

2004-04-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Panna wrote: I've purchased a new emac with OSX 10.3. It's soon to arrive and so I'm thinking about a good way of interacting the emac - which will be my main desktop - with my 5.2.1 server. Until now I used a windows laptop with xp and the files where shared with samba.

Re: OSX and Freebsd : what could be a good setup

2004-04-02 Thread Charles Swiger
On Apr 2, 2004, at 4:23 AM, Panna wrote: Until now I used a windows laptop with xp and the files where shared with samba. So I thought that using an unixoid os would bring some advantages :-) I think that I'll use hfs+ on the emac. [ ... ] The freebsd server should act as mail and news-server