Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:49:50 -0400 From: Mikel King <mikel.king@olivent.com> To: Seur Bors <seurbors@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server Message-ID: <CF58393E-EFD2-4691-AC5D-D17BC7FE15AB@olivent.com> In-Reply-To: <26b281ee0904031042g754096d1k13d016b88d653cb8@mail.gmail.com> References: <26b281ee0904031042g754096d1k13d016b88d653cb8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Seur Bors wrote: > Greetings, > > I am recommending a FreeBSD solution to replace an old business "file > server". The old server is running Windows 2000 Professional, and the > company has grown from the 5 employee setting to now two floors and > approximately 15 - 20 people. They were starting to get connection > errors > to the Win2K machine, as I believe, without the Server version of the > software, file sharing and maps are severely limited. > > Anyways, my question is thus: In setting up a FreeBSD machine and > utilizing > Samba to support "standard" file sharing, is there any caveats or > issues > that anyone perceives? I've done multiple FreeBSD installations, and > utilize the Samba package to provide file sharing support in other > small > businesses, but have not had to consider 20 connections at once. The > network connection is just a simple router to switch, all gigabit, > and the > system I'm recommending to use as a server also has dual gigabit > network > ports. > > As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would > greatly > appreciate them. > > Regards, > > Seur Bors > Legate Commander > Knights Of The Old Code The latest samba port if very robust. You should find this trivial to complete. I encourage you to go with new hardware if possible. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court Medford, NY 11763 http://www.olivent.com http://www.daemonnews.org http://www.bsdmag.org skype: mikel.king t: 631.627.3055 m: 646.554.3660 +------------------------------------------+ Experimenting w/ Twitter follow me if you dare... http://twitter.com/mikelking +------------------------------------------+
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