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From: Les Lytollis <les.lytollis@morse.com>
To: 'James Scott' <scottjj@purdue.edu>
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Subject: RE: help
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 17:30:26 -0000 
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> Trying to create server that will be used as internal file storage. 

> I'm doing this as a learning project. any ideas or 
> thing out of
> the handbook i should read?
> 

Well, consider the important things a fileserver would need:

access and retrieval - local? remote? 
	- look at samba, ftp

security
	- permissions, ssh, scp

backups to or from the freeBSD box
	- cron, mounting cd burners

Hope this points you in the right direction

Lez

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