From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 3 18:51:28 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 D2F391065676 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:51:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikel.king@olivent.com) Received: from mail.olivent.com (mail.olivent.com [69.31.85.206]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FB1B8FC1D for ; Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:51:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikel.king@olivent.com) Received: from thoth.techally.com ([204.107.76.235]) (authenticated user mikel@olivent.com) by mail.olivent.com (Kerio MailServer 6.6.2) (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES128-SHA (128 bits)); Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:51:25 -0400 References: <26b281ee0904031042g754096d1k13d016b88d653cb8@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: From: Mikel King To: Seur Bors In-Reply-To: <26b281ee0904031042g754096d1k13d016b88d653cb8@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 14:49:50 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 18:51:29 -0000 On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:42 PM, 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 The latest samba port if very robust. You should find this trivial to complete. I encourage you to go with new hardware if possible. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court Medford, NY 11763 http://www.olivent.com http://www.daemonnews.org http://www.bsdmag.org skype: mikel.king t: 631.627.3055 m: 646.554.3660 +------------------------------------------+ Experimenting w/ Twitter follow me if you dare... http://twitter.com/mikelking +------------------------------------------+