Ok. After lurking the net fer something about setting up a FreeBSD file server, I read about something else. About my new custom kernel. I just know that SMP is not enabled by default in the 6.2-R installation or GENERIC kernel configuration file. So my custom kernel, which was modified from GENERIC didn't enabled SMP fer my G770i. A SMP-enabled (Symmetrical Multi Processing) kernel will allow my G770i (which have 2x 266Mhz intel PII processor) to use both of the processor installed. By reading http://people.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/getstarted.html, I just know that there's a SMP-enabled GENERIC (named SMP-GENERIC) kernel configuration file in src/sys/i386/conf/. A few other good reads:
http://people.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html
http://www.freebsddiary.org/smp.php (A year 2000 post, might not be correct now but a good read.)
Google fer more if you're interested. I'll build a new kernel with SMP enabled in a while and I'll post the config file after that.
About getting to NAS. I know there's a simple solution, named FreeNAS. Sure I heard it's great fer turning your computer into a NAS server. But I'm not going that way. I want this G770i to be my workstation too. To do something, surf the net etc. Yes it'll be more to NAS but not total. But then I might just be dumb ;).
So after looking around a bit, I'll settle fer Samba. I know it'll make my head ache somehow. :). A few good links fer Samba related stuff:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-samba.html (aka the FreeBSD Handbook.)
http://www.samba.org
http://www.us-webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/Samba/ (reflecting FreeBSD 4.9, might still be useful.)
Do visit http://www.freenas.org is you're interested in knowing about FreeNAS. Later.
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