From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 09:15:52 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 CEF4D16A4CF for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:15:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from elephant.ru.ac.za (elephant.ru.ac.za [146.231.128.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6691643D4C for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:15:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sPamREMOVEfree@iwr.ru.ac.za) Received: from iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.249]:1480) by elephant.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.40 (FreeBSD)) id 1BnZg5-000ImP-Q4 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:15:50 +0200 Received: from IWR/SpoolDir by iwr.ru.ac.za (Mercury 1.48); 22 Jul 04 11:15:50 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by IWR (Mercury 1.48); 22 Jul 04 11:15:48 +0200 Received: from iwr50-98 (146.231.64.122) by iwr.ru.ac.za (Mercury 1.48); 22 Jul 04 11:15:41 +0200 From: DejaVU To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <40E1A6A2.6060001@atlanticbb.net> Organization: I'm alone out here Message-ID: <952E728E5spamremove@news.ru.ac.za> User-Agent: Xnews/2.03.11 X-From: nelson_mo113@yahoo.com X-Spam-Score: -3.0 (---) Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:15:52 +0000 (GMT) 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: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:15:52 -0000 On 06/29/2004, you scribbled in freebsd.questions: > 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? yes. I am busy doing this to replace a Novell 3.12 server > What kinds of utilities would I need to run? I imagine > NFS for *nix clients and Samba for MS clients. yes, afaik > Also possibly > share printers with this computer as well. CUPS for that. I wouldn't bother with CUPS. Consider the requirement : windows PC needs to send print data down a wire that arrives at the printer. A 'raw' printcap printer definition does this just fine, and just share the printer out via SAMBA. In fact my server will share 5 printers out among 3 print servers. no CUPS anywhere... but, if you want auto installed printer drivers, you might want CUPS, though it is my understandign that SAMBA can do that without it. > Also what kind a minimum system reccomendations does anyone have? my current Novell server is a Pentium 166, serving 25 users. no sweat at all there. the UTP link is 100Mbits fullduplex into a switch. the FreeBSD server is a Pentium3 1.1GHz with 512MB RAM and in testing so far is not noticebly different from having a local harddrive. the real issues are reconfiguring all the PC's to access it and educating the %$$#&#&#$ users.... swarf, steam and wind -- David -:- the email address is real but not forever /"\ http://terrapin.ru.ac.za/~iwdf/welcome.html \ / ASCII Ribbon campaign against HTML E-Mail > - - - - - - -> X If you receive email saying "Send this to everyone you know," / \ PLEASE pretend you don't know me.