From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Apr 12 8:50:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from tvainet.tva.gov (tvainet.tva.gov [152.85.133.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9C6514ECC for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:50:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tjswanso@gie.noh.tva.gov) Received: from topaz.cha.tva.gov by tvainet.tva.gov via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 12 Apr 1999 15:47:39 UT Received: from gie.noh.tva.gov (gie.noh.tva.gov [152.85.77.150]) by topaz.cha.tva.gov (8.8.6/8.7.3/8.7.5-topaz) with ESMTP id LAA10175 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:47:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tjswanso@localhost) by gie.noh.tva.gov (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id LAA26474 for newbies@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:46:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:46:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Toby Swanson N-1417 Message-Id: <199904121546.LAA26474@gie.noh.tva.gov> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD server success stories X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greetings to all (especially lurking sys-admin-types), First of all I am not asking for tech support. I want to know what has worked for you or someone you know of. I have the opportunity to recommend replacing a Sun SPARCserver-1000 with an Intel based FreeBSD machine. It will be a general file and print server for about 200-250 users/hosts. Most client machines will be Windows 95 and NT Workstations, with a few Sun Sparcs. The server will have to provide NIS and DNS in addition to hosting 25 to 35 netwk printers. It must also handle 4 SCSI controllers; 1 plain SCSI 2, 1 SCSI 2 that will handle 4 to 6 LUNs on each of 7 targets (irqs). The last 2 controllers must handle 10 to 14 4.2 Gb disks each. We use Samba to share file systems with PCs. We do not anticipate hosting any web or ftp services on this machine. While not on an unlimited budget I can recommend the latest and greatest mother board and SCSI controllers, since the guy who will be touting an NT "super server" will undoubtedly do the same. I hope to use the same hard drives now attached to the current server as a cost saving measure. If you need more information or I have not been clear, please ask. If you have, or know of, any similar success stories I would like to hear them. I know I might get a better response from questions, but I thought I would ask here first. Here if I am not clear about what I am asking for I get questioned, there I get flamed. Thanks, Toby To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message