I'm a little new to freebsd networking and I'm reaching out for some suggestions.
I recently set up a freebsd 7.1 "workstation" on my home office network which is connected directly to the ethernet port of an Apple Airport Extreme router (which is connected to my ISP). Also on my network is a number of MAC machines running Leopard.
As a first step, I'd like to share files between the freebsd box and the MAC's on the LAN. My first inclination is to use NFS - but I am not sure how this is supported on the MAC side. (maybe the underlying network files system implmentation on leopard IS NFS ?)
As a second step, I'd like the freebsd box to be accessible from a public network, so I can copy files to/from it from a remote access point. I may want to do this through a web service, because it would be nice to have a private website available on this machine that I could access from anywhere (through a UMPC) to read/transfer data.
Any suggestions/recommendations on a starting point ?
I recently set up a freebsd 7.1 "workstation" on my home office network which is connected directly to the ethernet port of an Apple Airport Extreme router (which is connected to my ISP). Also on my network is a number of MAC machines running Leopard.
As a first step, I'd like to share files between the freebsd box and the MAC's on the LAN. My first inclination is to use NFS - but I am not sure how this is supported on the MAC side. (maybe the underlying network files system implmentation on leopard IS NFS ?)
As a second step, I'd like the freebsd box to be accessible from a public network, so I can copy files to/from it from a remote access point. I may want to do this through a web service, because it would be nice to have a private website available on this machine that I could access from anywhere (through a UMPC) to read/transfer data.
Any suggestions/recommendations on a starting point ?