From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 3 18:24:00 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 B0B111065673 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:24:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 793C98FC20 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:24:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m38so758039waf.27 for ; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:23:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pCdZnxTB6+7rfVAhpvDNUynlS0f8iI4VzIa6LdJIVSk=; b=UTvNE19tQT24/7op5xYBg+l5yY6X8fo73EqxRqp0DHNsB6RDCrKtX2fGYCsoPIx7ds cNKl87iLq5QN1T4LJfG19E2q4CefqN3xg7zmMkVT0m7hd5R/kjjocuiYWzS1rDBBmGmj gxDO3wxlYozb88yN4LymnxE4ZkHxDHESp8Weg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=hE+RaIyaGLr4peQAGHRMaf+gRiq+HEBkGQrWrzFeSGzQEMvpllhhuQPaaaJ1EEGkO6 0lUe6IZ8Ifxzfq5BMGahb9ADHuor0pWgV3ifzmBLA08HIiIrGOhCzX7k8xtsBJ9bP7tF s+PjDoFmpdtq88+DR3Fgmh/cqrtrIOjDpPqMY= Received: by 10.114.211.17 with SMTP id j17mr733444wag.61.1238783039743; Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:23:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?216.16.29.53? (host-53.216-16-29.iw.net [216.16.29.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a8sm76273poa.8.2009.04.03.11.23.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:23:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49D6543F.8000007@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:23:59 -0500 From: Adam Vandemore User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Seur Bors , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <26b281ee0904031042g754096d1k13d016b88d653cb8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <26b281ee0904031042g754096d1k13d016b88d653cb8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: 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 18:24:01 -0000 Seur Bors wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Well there's a lot of info that would be needed to a well reasoned "Yes, you can", but the short version is it shouldn't be an issue under normal office-like usage. Going from 5 to 20 connections in such a scenario is negligible. Samba system-agnostic tutorials are good sources of info, but best advice is probably to use info provided by their official documentation and mailing list. Also, I have fbsd systems running samba with 20+ connections under what I consider normal office environment with absolutely no issues except I can't figure out how to get XP to save persistent login password. -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610