Local access to an NFS share is useful enough that I want it enabled by default, without the need for the mount command as shown in my previous post.
This default access to the server share also goes by the name "auto-mount". You have two options for setting it up: using the autofs utility or a [...]

I set up Samba a while back, and that turned out to be a great way to get stuff I used to keep on separate Windows computers all in one place on the FreeBSD box, as readily accessible as if they were still on the original local hard drives. Now I'd like to do the [...]