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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ix.netcom.com!news.platinum.com!not-for-mail From: Brian Clapper <clapper@platinum.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Windows 95/NT/Workgroups RAS server Date: 14 Jul 1997 10:36:18 -0400 Organization: PLATINUM technology, Inc Lines: 24 Message-ID: <xkqsoxhbt0d.fsf@platinum.com> References: <ED9u7H.6E5@vindaloo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: conch.ab.platinum.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44406 chris@vindaloo.com (Christopher Sean Hilton) writes: > Sorry if this is a double post. It's been a bit of time since I used > trn... > > I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD machine as a RAS server for > Windows. The target right now is Windows 95. This is a snap to set up > if the client machine is also running FreeBSD but I can't convince my > wife to use it ans she really does need to get to her e-mail. Has > anyone done this before? I had a similar problem; I used a simple, relatively low-tech solution. My server box runs FreeBSD. The "client" box dual-boots FreeBSD and Windows. My wife boots the client box under Windows, and uses Netscape to read her mail. (Eudora or something similar would also have sufficed.) I installed and configured the imapd software (see the Ports Collection), set up a POP account for her on the server, and configured the Netscape mailer to POP her mail from there. Works like a charm and requires virtually no additional maintenance. -- Brian Clapper, clapper@platinum.com Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem. -- Alan McKay