From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 5 07:59:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA12589 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 07:59:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA12582 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 07:59:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrs@Mars.mcs.net) Received: from Mars.mcs.net (jrs@Mars.mcs.net [192.160.127.85]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.7/8.8.2) with ESMTP id JAA23686; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:59:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (jrs@localhost) by Mars.mcs.net (8.8.7/8.8.2) with SMTP id JAA10353; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:59:37 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:59:37 -0600 (CST) From: Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II Reply-To: Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, jhupp@gensys.com, jbutt@mwci.net, Lyle Evans Subject: Re: [fbsd-isp] Designing for a very large isp Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thankyou for your help and suggestions. I just really have one more last topic i would like to discuss further. I read all the comments about NFS and based on comments i want to know of any practical alternatives. If i use common machines (as suggested) for mail, web and ftp --(ie) **NT** **ftp** **smtp** **cluster** **WWW** **POP3** **DNS1***** **DNS2** I was under the impression that the only way to share the files local to the users (*their directories with their mail, uploaded files, html etc*) was to use nfs and mount the directories accrosss each machine allowing accesss to the same information. If i wanted the desired effect but didn't want to use NFS is ccd an option if i expect to grow extremely quickly?? What other options have i not looked at for sharing user directories?? Thankyou for your help. JOHN ********************************* * M C S N E T * * Johnathan Raymond Sconiers II * * jrs@mcs.net * *********************************