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FreeBSD first steps

Please refer to the FreeBSD Handbook for extended information.

• add a new user: # adduser -v, if you want to be able to su to root, add yourself to the wheel group
• fetch and extract the ports tree: # portsnap fetch extract

Samba

• you can set your password with # smbpasswd -a user
• and mount a share with:
  • # mount -t smbfs //user@example.com/share /mnt/
• % smbclient -L example.com is useful to test your samba server

Useful things

• if you use the Z shell, there's a nice install menu available: % autoload zsh-newuser-install && zsh-newuser-install -f
• if you don't have a DNS server, you can add your IP addresses and hostnames to /etc/hosts:
  192.168.1.1 www.example.com www

CUPS with Canon i455 and cups-pdf

Canon i455

• select Canon as make and CANON BJC 8200 as model
• configure A4 as media size and 600x600 DPI as resolution

cups-pdf

• select Virtual Printer (PDF-Printer) as device and Postscript as make