My Windows networking dilemma.

[Spectere]

Very yes.

Unless you want to get VERY intimate with the route command (or just love pinging localhost) it's not a whole lot of fun to have a system on its own subnet.

[Zakamiro]

any idea on how to do any of the things I mentioned previously?

When I turn on upcompy, I need to enter these things (hopefully in this order):

dhclient ral0

ddclient

/apache/bin/apachectl start

How can I have freebsd do this on its own? I know there's a .conf file SOMEWHERE for it, like [?]/boot/something.conf


also, how can I change the subnet mask? :$ It has it specified in wpa_supplicant.conf, why would dhclient choose not to obey it? :[

[Spectere]

I can't really remember how FreeBSD handles its init scripts.

Generally, /etc/init.d/local (or something similar) is what holds custom commands that execute after the system is up.  Give that a look.  If that's how it works in FBSD the file should already be there.

[Zakamiro]

k, no idea about the subnet mask? if not that's k. (i'ma edit this post l8r g8r.)

[Spectere]

Oh, whoops.  Didn't see that. :x

dhclient pretty much overwrites all of the major network settings (IP address, subnet mask, gateway, DNS) with what the DHCP server gives it.  I'd either check the configuration on your DHCP server or give it a static address.

[Zakamiro]

yeah, ok, so it works with a fucked up subnet mask. OH WELL. who cares.

My next challenge is being able to access/modify my entire hard disk via ftp. :> I can always go into putty and edit root out of the disallowed ftp users, and then readd root, but.. that's not very safe. rofl. but yeah, idk. Also, still trying to turn up info on doing commands for boottime. perhaps some apache documentation will have it. "HEY, this is what you can do instead of having to type in '/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start' when you turn on the machine each time!!!" yerp.

[Spectere]

I'd just use SSH/SCP to do all of your disk work.  FTP just isn't very secure.

If you want a program that'll let you use SCP easily, give WinSCP a go.  It should work without a hitch on any system with SSH installed on it.

[Bobbias]

Heh, I got lucky, since the machine I've got SSH on and such happens to be running a SAMBA share, I don't have much trouble at all moving stuff onto it.