Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 18:23:34 -0500 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'The Varney's' <KingKong@madbbs.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: H.S. Networking Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB441A5F2F@site2s1>
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Ok I think FreeBSD would work good for what you need and would be much more cost effective. Here is the basic idea of what I think would work best for you and is based upon what I am implementing on my humbly-small network... > -----Original Message----- > From: The Varney's [SMTP:KingKong@madbbs.com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 7:03 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: H.S. Networking > <snip> > What we are looking for is: > Putting in Novell or similar to handle both Mac and IBM compat PC's This looks like you need a file server, because Mac and PC's can't use the "SAME" software. FreeBSD would handle this very will. You could either spend $$$ to get NFS client software on the PC & Mac sides, or you could use SAMBA on the FreeBSD side to provide file and printer sharing to windows machines. SAMBA can now even act as a windows logon server if you're interested in such things. Take a look at http://www.samba.org/ for more information. > Lotus for inter room messaging For Win95/98 there is a program that comes with it called WinPopup, there is also an equivalent in NT with the "net send" command. Also, if you're using "interoffice" messaging, you would probably be looking into inter-office email then. Use the default sendmail/pop/imap internet style mail internally and use one of the freely available e-mail programs on each client machine (Netscape/outlook/pc-pine/eudora/etc...) > An antivirus program That is specific to the client machine, that server would have nothing to do with this. You would need some windows/mac based antivirus installed on each pc. Technically I believe there is a package for FreeBSD machines that will scan Windows files for viruses, but I'm not 100% sure about this. > And a program for security What does this mean? What level of security? Where is this security? > The ability to use both Mac and PC programs on the same system That's not really possible, unless you were to run a Windows emulator on the MAC or a mac emulator on the PC (if such a beast exists). Again this has nothing to do with the server. > The ability to access the internet from all pc's FreeBSD excels at this. Also it can act as a firewall to protect the internal network from the outside and can also act to protect the outside network from the inside. You can set it up to block certain connections, maybe you don't want students looking at certain web sites, etc... This can all be setup on FreeBSD and will run well on a fraction of the hardware that other systems such as Novell or NT require. > Share printers See what I said about File sharing. > We (technology committee) are looking into different OS systems and are > interested in FreeBSD, but are not quite sure how this system will work > for > us. I have had several people from FreeBSD (supporters?) e-mail me,quite > promptly, with lots of information. Though all the e-mail has been > informative, I'm still not sure how we can intagrate FreeBSD into our > system. Thanks.........Kurt Clymer, NY (near lake Erie) > As a server on the network, I believe that FreeBSD is the best solution, but you may need to re-think your approach, I believe you are trying to do too much with the server. -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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