Archive for September, 2009

How to configure NFS

On large networks, it might be more convenient to configure a central NFS server in which to store all the user home directories. These home directories can then be exported to the network so that users would always have the same home directory, regardless of which workstation they log in to.
Several machines could have a [...]

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How to mount an external USB storage device

In this example, we will attach an external Trust USB card reader to a FreeBSD 7.2 machine.
Our memory card is inserted into the card reader, and the card reader USB cord is then plugged in. The USB port will be probed by the generic mass storage driver and we can then fetch the device name, [...]

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