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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Intranet, NFS, setup help needed
Date: 23 Feb 1997 21:57:06 GMT
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"Stephen Hilton" <schmit@discover-net.net> wrote:

> How about some clarifcation of what needs to be edited/configured to get
> communications working between my FreeBSD 2.1.6 machine and 2 SGI Indigo2
> workstations. I have sucsessfully  setup Samba on the SGI's so they are SMB
> directory sharing with the Windoze95 boxes. And have the FreeBSD box
> pinging itself, but am confused about routing, IP conventions, etc..., to
> the SGI's. Ping to SGI reports no route defined. Also I am having trouble
> setting up NFS between FreeBSD and IRIX. The SGI's have working NFS shares
> between each other that I setup.

It seems you need a good book on this.  Setting up an IP network is
not rocket-science, but if you haven't any picture about how it works
at all, it's hard to give you that much help in Usenet.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)