Hour 24. File Sharing

You have now learned almost all that you need to know in order to run a FreeBSD machine as a fully functional workstation or server on the Internet. However, there is one final puzzle piece before the picture is complete: file sharing. This is the subject of the final hour.

Any computer on the Internet can handle email and Web surfing. Those are the two biggest and most commercialized segments of the Internet, and they are all that many Internet users ever experience. However, a truly networked computer must have a third aspect of its networking in place before it can be considered truly complete, and that is the capability to share files with other computers across the network. This kind of connectivity dates back to the ...

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