From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 3 18:08:13 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123FD106564A for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:08:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seurbors@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f171.google.com (mail-ew0-f171.google.com [209.85.219.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 712108FC13 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:08:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seurbors@gmail.com) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so1032307ewy.43 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:08:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=49Wf4fYk/dNHBUTt3ilPWpxmRMXk7k483Dh9waxyDcU=; b=lVLPMTe9qC+MMCX92ldAoY0Vat4xWKl65QiEiSAj1VWsh/XK5gxkS/St+lWLc6mY/v nR6T+ucT3CIkzKrYsrsnu3BeXRAZeap2He8mpFpbgJAkavuIlYI5lG0TM6AvBZxhQtT1 Iu5OCCafj7i4BVJthsbTvYKLughANhgU3R/tM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=Gx2G7fq9+kjiXf8zh8IeuKEP6AjUMnY0CYo/dGXgfMOBvWOvagyfJvWRPYXsAmBB5h nAv8bLo6auIwqBOAtL9iSm9GSYgs4z65JlvJZ3jz4jCVXwXXO6Sewf4RdHDL8pozjQhN 0QRXd7vWXFcMP1Foxs0n4Z6hC7H6IjA0cCpdg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.45.17 with SMTP id s17mr1068571ebs.93.1238780569980; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:42:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 13:42:49 -0400 Message-ID: <26b281ee0904031042g754096d1k13d016b88d653cb8@mail.gmail.com> From: Seur Bors To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD as a Business Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:08:14 -0000 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