Re: Brother Printer

2012-03-03 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Da Rock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 2, 2012 10:37 AM Subject: Re: Brother Printer On 03/02/12 23:57, Michel Talon wrote: > On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:40:21 +1000 Da Rock wrote: >> Are you sure its just a script? Any clue as to what shell it is using? >> Bash? I do

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-03-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Rick Miller To: Erik Nørgaard ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp Hi Erik, Thanks for getting back to me.  The original problem is the same issue...we are still working it, but we've isolated the configuratio

Re: Token Ring (really)

2012-04-11 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Nikos Vassiliadis To: Jay West Cc: 'Adam Vande More' ; 'mikel king' ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2012 7:03 PM Subject: Re: Token Ring (really) On 4/8/2012 4:41 PM, Jay West wrote: > Adam wrote... > > Otherwise, it's time t

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-23 Thread Bill Tillman
The only problem with this is that unlike 10 years ago, today almost all ISP's block anything coming down port 25 unless you have an account that allows your e-mail server to work. And they of course charge for this. I used to enjoy my own private e-mail server but these days if the ISP's don't

Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

2011-02-23 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Polytropon To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 4:41:02 PM Subject: Re: How to forward old root mails to an external email address? On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:32:03 -0800 (PST), Bill Tillman wrote: > The only problem w

Re: console based sound control

2011-04-03 Thread Bill Tillman
I use audacity but that is a sound editor and may not be what you're looking for. From: Alokat To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 9:59:57 AM Subject: console based sound control Hi, I'm looking for a sound control tool (like alsamixer)

Re: Home firewall with DLink router & FreeBSD

2011-05-06 Thread Bill Tillman
Please excuse me. I typed my reply below all the existing text but somehow it ended up being formatted into the middle of this one. Can someone give me the tip for insuring I don't top post and that my reply ends up at the bottom of the e-mail? From:

Re: Home firewall with DLink router & FreeBSD

2011-05-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Leonardo M. Ramé To: questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 3:44:36 PM Subject: Home firewall with DLink router & FreeBSD The short answer is a definite yes, but you will need two NIC's in the FreeBSD server. I have a FreeBSD server which runs disk

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Doug Hardie To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 10:21:29 PM Subject: Sending a Fax One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes.  He has a Brother 8680DN which will fax.  Any ideas how to send a file to it and get it to send a fax?  I am not f

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Tillman
uot;This is the only way we know how and we've done it like this for so long, we don't want to change." IMHO...Faxing is so last century. From: David Brodbeck To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Fri, May 6, 2011 1:30:58 PM Subject: Re: Sending a Fax O

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Janos Dohanics To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 1:06:31 AM Subject: Re: Newbie Needing Help On Sun, 8 May 2011 17:17:48 -0700 John or Judy Hixson wrote: > [...] > Another problem that's throwing me for a loop is that even though I'm > logge

OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
I have a FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE server running OpenVPN. What I'm trying to do is to be able to access my LAN with my M$ Windows laptop using a M$ compatible client. I read the manpage and it basically sets forth examples in which there will be two (2) OpenVPN servers. In my case I will only have on

Fw: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Chuck Swiger To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 4:14:34 PM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup On May 10, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > I have a FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE server running OpenVPN. What I'm tryi

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
. From: Chuck Swiger To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 6:02:13 PM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup On May 10, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: >> OpenVPN's site provides fine documentation: >> >&

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
nimum. From: Chuck Swiger To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 6:02:13 PM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup On May 10, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: >> OpenVPN's site provides fine documentation: >> >> 

Fw: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chuck Swiger To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 6:39:48 PM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup   OK I know I saw this somewhere but it eludes me now. I have generated the keys and certificates for the server and client

Re: Fw: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Kevin Wilcox To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 7:42:21 PM Subject: Re: Fw: OpenVPN Setup On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 19:19, Bill Tillman wrote: > OK I know I saw this somewhere but it eludes me now. I h

Re: start X in background without it taking over the console?

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Tillman
From: CyberLeo Kitsana To: Chris Telting Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, May 11, 2011 7:07:01 AM Subject: Re: start X in background without it taking over the console? On 05/11/2011 05:36 AM, Chris Telting wrote: > I already do... I'm want to au

OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Tillman
Thanks to everyone for the replies yesterday on OpenVPN. I'd like to report a few interesting things: 1. In doing some google searches on this last night, believe it or not some of the search results were the exact questions I asked in this group, only yesterday afternoon. And this was while I

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Kevin Wilcox To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, May 11, 2011 9:28:08 AM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:11, Bill Tillman wrote: > 2. I have my OpenVPN process running on my FreeBSD server and wish

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Kevin Wilcox To: Bill Tillman Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, May 11, 2011 9:28:08 AM Subject: Re: OpenVPN Setup On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:11, Bill Tillman wrote: > 2. I have my OpenVPN process running on my FreeBSD server and wish

OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-11 Thread Bill Tillman
Thanks again for all the great tips on OpenVPN setup. I think its about ready for real deployment but I have a couple of more questions. My OpenVPN server (10.0.0.254) is inside my LAN behind another FreeBSD router/gateway (10.0.0.253) which is running IPFW+NATD and handles the LAN's connection

Re: Long Day's Journey into

2011-06-09 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 8:56:59 PM Subject: Long Day's Journey into Well, people, It's been a long, long century.  I've been down for 5 days. Couldn't understand _why_ I couldn't ping anywhere [expect the Server

Re: copying hard drives

2011-06-10 Thread Bill Tillman
From: David Banning To: questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, June 10, 2011 3:11:46 PM Subject: copying hard drives I am interested in copying hard drives and would like some feedback. 1. I would like a way to take peoples windows -or- unix systems and store each o

Re: ftp installation

2011-06-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Daniel Feenberg To: Robert Simmons Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sat, June 11, 2011 8:50:48 PM Subject: Re: ftp installation On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: >> >> I have

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Daniel Staal To: John or Judy Hixson ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, June 10, 2011 8:24:23 PM Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg --As of June 10, 2011 4:26:27 PM -0700, John or Judy Hixson is alleged to have said: > I'm hav

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chuck Swiger To: Polytropon Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Sun, June 12, 2011 2:43:16 PM Subject: Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg I stand corrected. Tab Window Manager it iseither way, I use it because it's just plain simple and I d

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-15 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chuck Swiger To: Gary Kline Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Wed, June 15, 2011 4:04:23 PM Subject: Re: how do i fsck my server? On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > can anybody clue me in on why fsck on my server [yes, of course as root] >

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Bill Tillman
Wow. this thread really took a turn for the worse. So getting back to the main topic about SIP phones, I have been using SIP phones since 2006 and I never found anything that worked under FreeBSD. Mainly for this reason and this reason seems to mirror where this thread went off topic. While I

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-23 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Sent: Wed, June 22, 2011 11:26:30 PM Subject: Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD? Hey guys.this thread is really starting to stink. Take it outside. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:08:59PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > On Jun 2

Re: cvs vs. DVD

2011-06-27 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Lars Eighner To: wayne mitchell Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Sun, June 26, 2011 3:57:50 PM Subject: Re: cvs vs. DVD On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, wayne mitchell wrote: > hey, > be warned, you are dealing with a  'newbie' Be warned, I don't know the offici

Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect

2011-07-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Dan Nelson To: Michael Sierchio Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, July 11, 2011 1:07:31 PM Subject: Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect In the last episode (Jul 11), Michael Sierchio said: > Sorry for the naive question, but most of

Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect

2011-07-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Michael Sierchio To: Dan Nelson Cc: Bill Tillman ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, July 12, 2011 6:35:19 PM Subject: Re: IPFW Firewall NAT inbound port-redirect We're not talking about natd.  The question was about the use of ipfirewal

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Aryeh Friedman To: FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Sat, July 16, 2011 10:40:19 PM Subject: how to force a hard reboot remotely Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? _

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Bill Tillman
From: "per...@pluto.rain.com" To: jri...@gmail.com; cbergst...@pathscale.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, July 18, 2011 9:05:47 AM Subject: Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore Joshua Isom wrote: > On 7/17/2011 6:16 PM, Mario Lobo w

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

2011-07-19 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Robert Bonomi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; ssgriffonu...@gmail.com Sent: Tue, July 19, 2011 12:31:56 PM Subject: Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:03:58 -0700 > From: ssgriffonuser > Subject: Sendmail no

Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25

2011-07-23 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Thu, 7/21/11, Bernt Hansson wrote: From: Bernt Hansson Subject: Re: Sendmail not accepting connections on port 25 To: "ssgriffonuser" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thursday, July 21, 2011, 3:31 AM 2011-07-20 06:24, ssgriffonuser skrev: > I still can't telnet in from an ex

Re: Poll on server attacks

2011-08-14 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 8/13/11, Alejandro Imass wrote: From: Alejandro Imass Subject: Re: Poll on server attacks To: "FreeBSD" Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011, 7:57 PM On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:43:02 -0400 > Alejandro Imass articulated: > [...] > Persona

Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2

2011-08-28 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Paul Beard To: Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 12:22 PM Subject: Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2 On Aug 28, 2011, at 7:04 AM, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > It is especially useful when you cannot ping, as it can tell you if the > packets are

Re: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-15 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Sarang. To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:43 PM Subject: Please secure your FTP access Oooh! This big bad but ethical hacker is going to erase all the FTP files I'm shaking in my boots. Please Mr. Big Bad, don't hurt us! Now close your c

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Bruce Cran To: Polytropon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 10:37 AM Subject: Re: Breakin attempt On 22 Oct 2011, at 15:12, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:50 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: >> I suspect that th

Need to Backup Using Dump

2011-10-23 Thread Bill Tillman
I have two FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE servers running NFS. I have tons of files on Server A that I want to backup to a big drive on Sever B. Server B nfs_mounts one of the filesystems on Server A to /mnt. So if I wanted to make a backup of the filesytem on Server A to Server B I tried: dump -d /home/my

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Ronald F. Guilmette To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 4:28 AM Subject: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS This isn't really a question.  It's more of a semi-rant, combined with some information that I wanted to put o

Re: Make buildworld don't run

2011-11-02 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Michael Powell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 4:00 PM Subject: Re: Make buildworld don't run Zantgo wrote: > I write "make buildworld", this is the answer: > > #make buildworld > make: don't know how to make build

Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want

2011-11-05 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Ryan Coleman To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 10:22 AM Subject: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want I have a PE 2450 with dual NICs and I want to turn it into a bridging VPN for the guys in the office to utilize. Our configu

Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want

2011-11-06 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Ryan Coleman To: Bill Tillman Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 9:32 PM Subject: Re: OpenVPN - what configuration do I need/want So... basically you've just set up servers that utilize the host connection or doesn't

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

2011-11-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Zantgo To: Robert Simmons Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2011 12:52 AM Subject: Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf El 06-11-2011, a las 1:29, Robert Simmons escribió: > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Zantgo

8.2-STABLE GENERIC kernel will not build

2011-11-06 Thread Bill Tillman
I updated the sources on one of my FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE servers and rebuilt the GENERIC kernel just last night. All went well. This morning I updated the sources on another machine and rebuilt a custom kernel and all went well.   This evening I updated the sources on a 3rd server and the make buildw

Re: 8-STABLE And fxp Driver

2011-11-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Tim Daneliuk To: FreeBSD Mailing List Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2011 1:03 PM Subject: 8-STABLE And fxp Driver Is there are known recent problem with the fxp driver and 8-STABLE. I buildworld/kernel every 7-10 days and I have recently begun to see a bu

Re: Default Samba port?

2011-11-14 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Robert Simmons To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 10:36 AM Subject: Re: Default Samba port? On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Peter Harrison wrote: > Can anyone advise me the appropriate Samba port to install - the handbo

Files End Up Read-Only With Samba

2011-12-14 Thread Bill Tillman
I am running FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE-amd64, last update was a few weeks ago. I run Samba-3.6 on this server and it has served me well for my Windows clients to store and share files. All was working fine until recently I've began to notice that whenever I save a file to this server, they always end u

Re: booting

2011-12-17 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Maxime-Etienne de Gier To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2011 9:04 AM Subject: booting I am really interested in Freebsd or PC-BSD but unfortunately every time when I download an ISO of either of them and try to boot up (fr

Re: Legacy releases of freeBSD

2011-12-19 Thread Bill Tillman
I think we understand why you're looking for older versions, there might even be a copy of 3.5 out there somewhere but as I recall the latest version was 3.3 sometime in 2001. I have an old CD around here somewhere with 4.9 but I think others as well would encourage you to use the latest version

Re: HP LaserJet Pro P1102 stops responding after a while

2011-12-19 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Jeff Tipton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:10 PM Subject: HP LaserJet Pro P1102 stops responding after a while But what I do find is that my laser printer also goes into sleep mode to save power and life...which is

Re: Thinkpad w500 microphone with Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa)

2012-01-02 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Eric Schuele To: Lyubomir Grigorov Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2012 5:34 PM Subject: Re: Thinkpad w500 microphone with Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa) On 01/01/2012 15:23, Lyubomir Grigorov wrote: > I assume you are using

Re: mailing list and personal assaults

2012-01-02 Thread Bill Tillman
  From: Johan Hendriks To: FreeBSD Sent: Monday, January 2, 2012 8:58 AM Subject: mailing list and personal assaults I as a normal sys admin like to read the mailing lists, because it learned me a lot, and it still does. But lately it looks like more and

9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-05 Thread Bill Tillman
Today I encountered a problem which has me stumped. I downloaded and burned the ISO image for 9.0-RELEASE for amd64. I  installed an older IDE hard drive to test the new OS with and did the install. I was very surprised at the (1) the dvd is actually a live CD if you wanted it to be and (2) the ins

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive

2012-01-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Waitman Gobble To: Bill Tillman Cc: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 5:09 AM Subject: Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64 Bricked My Hard Drive On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > Today I encountered a problem which has

Re: mplayer fails to compile on amd64 machine

2012-01-21 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Antonio Olivares To: FreeBSD Questions Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2012 9:07 PM Subject: mplayer fails to compile on amd64 machine Dear kind folks, Running Amd64 FreeBSD 8.0 updated l/live/groupsock/libgroupsock.a                  -lm -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -Wl,-rpath=/u

Virtual Box on FreeBSD Server

2013-04-19 Thread Bill Tillman
I've been looking into setting up some Linux servers but instead I'm thinking that I could use Virtual Box on my FreeBSD servers to do this. I would like some seasoned advice from others on the following before proceeding: 1. As I understand it you can install Virtual Box from the ports collecti

Re: Diskless question

2013-04-25 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Arthur Chance To: Bernt Hansson Cc: questions FreeBSD Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 9:52 AM Subject: Re: Diskless question On 04/24/13 13:45, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > > 2013-04-24 13:21, Arthur Chance skrev: >> On 04/24/13 11:55, Bernt Hansson

Re: X client without X server

2013-07-03 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Anton Shterenlikht To: me...@bristol.ac.uk; olivier2...@gmail.com Cc: o...@cs.ait.ac.th; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 9:17 AM Subject: Re: X client without X server     From olivier2...@gmail.com Wed Jul  3 13:09:25 20

Re: Diskless question

2013-09-14 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Bernt Hansson To: Bernt Hansson Cc: Julian H. Stacey ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 12:37 PM Subject: Re: Diskless question On 2013-09-14 15:41, Bernt Hansson wrote: > On 2013-09-14 11:05, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

Re: Soekris for a Trac server

2013-10-01 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Michael To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Tuesday, October 1, 2013 2:22 AM Subject: Soekris for a Trac server I am planning to move a jail-hosted service to a physical device and would like to hear the advices of experts here. My service r

Re: android

2011-02-14 Thread Bill Tillman
I haven't mounted my Android yet on my FreeBSD servers but I would think the advice below of mounting it like a MSDOS thumb drive would be correct. I would also think you'd need to use the "longname" switch as well on your command line. Otherwise you'll be stuck with the old 8.3 filename format

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-03 Thread Bill Tillman
- Original Message - From: C. P. Ghost To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 7:20 PM Subject: Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ? On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > It is possible that Microsoft is going the way of SCO --

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-19 Thread Bill Tillman
- Original Message - From: dweimer To: FreeBSD Questions Cc: Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:53 AM Subject: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI? I was just trying some proof of concept testing to see if I could get a system booting with no local disk using iSCSI running

Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI?

2012-09-21 Thread Bill Tillman
- Original Message - From: Paul Wootton To: Bill Tillman Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:08 AM Subject: Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI? On 09/20/12 01:42, Bill Tillman wrote: > Interesting project you've got there. I can't say mine is sim

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-29 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Fleuriot Damien To: birdf...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:40 PM Subject: Re: i386 vs amd64 On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:36 PM, mike miskulin wrote: > About to build a replacement system for an older

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

2012-12-11 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Polytropon To: Hanafi Syahroini Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 11:57 AM Subject: Re: Mounting a samba share on boot? On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:25:56 +0700, Hanafi Syahroini wrote: > [nothing] First of all, it's not un

Re: Mounting a samba share on boot?

2012-12-12 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Polytropon To: Bill Tillman Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:40 AM Subject: Re: Mounting a samba share on boot? On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:08:38 -0800 (PST), Bill Tillman wrote: > Typically, Samba is

Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers

2013-01-07 Thread Bill Tillman
From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 9:34 AM Subject: Re: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 14:32:35 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > Today I don't need to deal with this question anymore. I've > been

Wireless Access Point

2010-02-06 Thread Bill Tillman
Okay I have finally decided to scrap my old D-Link wireless router in favor of my FreeBSD-8.0 server with a wireless NIC ral0. I have thus far got the NIC to come up and work as an access point. I can connect to this AP with my laptop computer via wireless. I'm running dhcpd on the FreeBSD serve

Re: Wireless Access Point

2010-02-06 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: Wireless Access Point To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 1:45 PM On Sat, 6 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: ... > Now my new FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE serve

Re: Wireless Access Point

2010-02-06 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/6/10, Mark wrote: From: Mark Subject: Re: Wireless Access Point To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: "help help" Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 2:46 PM --- On Sat, 2/6/10, Warren Block wrote: > From: Warren Block > Subject: Re: Wireless Access Point

Re: Wireless Access Point

2010-02-07 Thread Bill Tillman
Thanks to everyone for the great advice. For clarity on this I erased all the other previous messages.   The bottome line is I got it to work. It was a problem with my NATD setup on the server inside the LAN which is running as AP for the wireless computers in my house. It's all working grea. An

Re: Wireless Access Point

2010-02-07 Thread Bill Tillman
Okay bad news.   There were just too many problems with this setup. I recall a few weeks ago building an 8.0 server and it had troubles as well. So I reinstalled 7.2-RELEASE on this server and here's what happened:   The laptop got an IP address and connected not instantly but much quicker than

FreeBSD to Cisco ASA 5505 VPN Connection

2010-02-17 Thread Bill Tillman
I have a small dilemma. The boss finally relented and is allowing me to work from home. This is a good deal for him too I just have to convince him. They have a Cisco ASA 5505 VPN router at the office. I have a wonderfully working LAN that uses a FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE server running NATD+IPFW. This

Re: FreeBSD to Cisco ASA 5505 VPN Connection

2010-02-17 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Wed, 2/17/10, Chuck Swiger wrote: From: Chuck Swiger Subject: Re: FreeBSD to Cisco ASA 5505 VPN Connection To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 5:17 PM Hi-- On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > The tech

Marvell Yukon LAN Adapters

2010-02-19 Thread Bill Tillman
I just built a screaming machine with X58i motherboard, i7 CPU and 12 GB RAM. But alas, besides problems with loading Windows on it I seemed to have hit a snag with FreeBSD as well.  The motherboard has two built-in Gigabyte Ethernet ports which FreeBSD-8.0-STABLE-2010002-amd64 identifies as ms

Printing via USB Port

2010-02-25 Thread Bill Tillman
I had a nifty setup with an old computer running as my FreeBSD file and print server. Worked so good I decided to update the computer. But since most computers no longer come with parallel port for printing I'm forced to use the USB feature on my Brother HL-2040 printer.   In the previous setup

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, C. P. Ghost wrote: From: C. P. Ghost Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 3:44 AM On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: > I tried cups but I could not g

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
#x27;m still doing google and yahoo searches and will try again with the #freebsd channel.   --- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 10:06 AM Resending this off-list sin

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
is in the queue but nothing is printing when using the USB connection. Sorry to be so much trouble. I thought this would be one of those things that would just start working. --- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillma

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 4:25 PM On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > Okay, I have the setup like you show and

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 5:38 PM On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: >   > Thanks again for your valuable inpu

Re: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
) > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port > > > > > > From: Warren Block > > Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port > > Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 5:38 PM > > > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > > >

RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
) > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port > > > > > > From: Warren Block > > Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port > > Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 5:38 PM > > > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > > >

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: "Robert Bonomi" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:26 PM On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > Ok

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: "Robert Bonomi" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:26 PM On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > Ok

Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port

2010-02-27 Thread Bill Tillman
--- On Sat, 2/27/10, Warren Block wrote: From: Warren Block Subject: Re: RESOLVED: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" Cc: "Robert Bonomi" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 27, 2010, 2:26 PM On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > Ok

make buildworld runs out of space

2010-03-17 Thread Bill Tillman
I have built two machines with 8.0-STABLE-201002-amd64. When I updated the sources and ran make buildworld process it would fail claiming that / was full.   It seems to be running into the problem when the make installkernel portion of my script was running. Both machines were built using the def

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and

2010-05-14 Thread Bill Tillman
I've watched this thread for several days now and to put in my 2 cents:   1. Samba is not that complicated. I've been using it for years and can have it up and configured in a matter of minutes.   2. Samba quickly allows you to see your FreeBSD servers from your windows clients just like it was a

Diskless Booting Can't Set /var in mfs larger than 4MB

2010-05-23 Thread Bill Tillman
I have a diskless workstation booting nicely but for some reason I cannot get the /var directory to set larger than 4MB. The docs I read said edit /pxeroot/conf/base/etc/fstab like this: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options       Dump Pass# md         /var

Re: Wireless

2010-05-26 Thread Bill Tillman
Several months ago I installed a Sabarent Wireless-G NIC using FreeBSD-7.2-STABLE. It took some reading about wpa_supplicant but I got it working both and a wireless node and a wireless access point for my laptop computers. While it worked I can't say it worked well. Sometimes the laptop would

Diskless Booting Router

2010-05-26 Thread Bill Tillman
Thank to all who replied on my previous request for information about diskless booting. I am now that much closer to my goal of having a totally diskless router. It's working right now but there are still two major bugs I need to work out. 1. When the FreeBSD box which is my diskless router boot

Re: Add watermark to PDF

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Tillman
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 19:36:02 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" Subject: Re: Add watermark to PDF To: John Almberg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID:     Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM, John Almberg wrote: > So basically this script would have t

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Tillman
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:31:15 -0700 From: Charlie Kester Subject: Re: PDF storage software recommendations? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100618063115.ga57...@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed On Thu 17 Jun 2010 at 19:57:03 PDT Polytropon

Re: /boot is full after running "make installkernel" on

2010-07-06 Thread Bill Tillman
Thanks guys. :-) Doesn't that seem odd that the "default" partition size for root (512M) isn't quite big enough? Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) to eliminate this problem? Ed --   I had the same problem and since my drives are

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-20 Thread Bill Tillman
Message: 24 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:05:13 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister Subject: Re: Help with setting up a mail server To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: "Aryeh M. Friedman" ,     freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100720180513.gb46...@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=is

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