From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 16:27:26 2002 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 A30DB37B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:27:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17D4D43E81 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g93NROuF012194; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:27:24 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g93NRNEv012190; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:27:23 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:27:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: "W. D." Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD instead of Novell Netware? In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021003132638.04e1d340@us-webmasters.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, W. D. wrote: > I was planning to put together a 10 user Novell Netware network. Is it > possible to substitute a FreeBSD server instead? Might be... see /usr/ports/net/mars_nwe. > What would be the differences? From the client side, it may look the same. From the server/administrator side, it'd look very different. You would be limited in what Novell software you could use. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Most of the FreeBSD services are, IMO, better than Novell's offerings, and the OS itself is more robust. But it could be a hassle to support. For a business, I wouldn't do it that way. I would likely use Samba or even NFS instead. It depends on what you need it to do. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message