From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 03:41:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042AC16A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:41:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D997F43D48 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:41:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from root@pukruppa.de) Received: (qmail 1087 invoked by uid 513); 30 Jun 2004 03:46:49 -0000 Received: from root@pukruppa.de by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.21 Clear:RC:1(213.146.114.24):SA:0(-4.9/5.0):. Processed in 0.434107 secs); 30 Jun 2004 03:46:49 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-114-24.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.114.24) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 30 Jun 2004 03:46:48 -0000 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 05:42:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa X-X-Sender: root@pukruppa.net To: Thomas Moyer In-Reply-To: <40E1A6A2.6060001@atlanticbb.net> Message-ID: <20040630051626.Y7597@pukruppa.net> References: <40E1A6A2.6060001@atlanticbb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: home directory questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 03:41:53 -0000 On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Thomas Moyer wrote: > Is it possible to setup a file server with FreeBSD and use that as a home > partition and also share other files on a small network? > What kinds of utilities would I need to run? I imagine NFS for *nix clients > and Samba for MS clients. Also possibly share printers with this computer as > well. CUPS for that. > Also what kind a minimum system reccomendations does anyone have? This cannot be predicted as long as you don't know what kind of setup you want to run (simple file server, domain controller ...), what kind of people are going to use it (people at work will kill you if their files aren't available, especially that kind who always forget their passwords) and how big the traffic on your server is. So I would recommend to test your setup privately on some old machine that can install FreeBSD and then ask again for hardware requirements. Regards, Uli. +---------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | Wuppertal | | Germany | +---------------------------+