Hello all,

I have a few basic networking questions.

Sorry, I looked on the net and there are plenty of unix tutorials but 
they all seem to not quite work with my version of netBSD. (Commands they 
say to do don't exist on my machine, etc.) So I decided to post to the 
group. Thanks!

I have MANY questions, most of them networking related, some of them not. 
Thanks for any you can answer!

1. How do you set the IP address for the machine, also will it recognise 
the ethernet card that I have in there, how do I specify to use the card 
for all TCP/IP requests?

2. Even in root, when I cd to the games folder (/usr/games I think) it 
won't let me open any of them? Do I have to move them to /usr/bin? Or do 
I need to give myself access to them? 

3. Say I want to install a program. Will all binaries intended for UNIX 
work, or do I need to track down the source code and gcc the darn thing?

4. How do I get files over to the machine, how do I "mount" a floppy? 
Does it even recognise a floppy? How about a zip drive?

5. If I have a cable modem, two ethernet cards (on the unix machine) and 
a hub, how do I share it with the rest of the house? Proxy? Ip 
Masquerading? Whichever is best and what should I use? gated, routed, 
mrouted? How do I set these up? Remember, VERY Basic!

6. I have set up a bunch of users, but how do I manipulate their 
privelages and disk space quotas? How about the privelages and quotas of 
a group? If I do both, which takes prescedence?

7. So that you won't have to answer as many questions in the future, 
where (physical, metaphycal, mental, internet, whatever) is there a guide 
to UNIX (netBSD mac68k port would be perfect) for new roots? Almost all 
the guides I have seen have been either highly specialized or for people 
with shell accounts at a college or university, almost none for people 
who are beginning with setting up their own system.


Remember, any questions you can answer would be greatly appreciated, and 
keep your responses relatively lay, as I am pretty new to this :)

Thanks so much for any response and thanks anyway for your time!




Thanx,

-Andrew


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