From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 8 21:55:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.cinar.com (gateway.cinar.com [207.107.104.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABC8237C200 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 21:55:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mgignac@cinar.com) Received: (qmail 2514 invoked by uid 85); 9 Jun 2000 00:55:18 -0400 Received: from mgignac@cinar.com by gateway.cinar.com with scan4virus-0.52 (. Clean. Processed in 0.046991 secs); 09/06/2000 00:55:18 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.cinar.com) (172.16.1.134) by gateway.cinar.com with SMTP; 9 Jun 2000 00:55:17 -0400 Received: from martingignac ([172.16.1.219]) by freebsd.cinar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA91397 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:55:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mgignac@cinar.com) Message-ID: <000701bfd1ce$e6cb1400$db0110ac@martingignac> From: "Martin Gignac" To: Subject: FreeBSD, Samba & Netatalk in the Corporate Environment... Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:55:06 -0400 Organization: Cinar Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm a fan of FreeBSD and am using it currently on a couple of machines where I work as a DHCP, DNS, NTP, IMAP, Big Brother, Samba, & Netatalk server, as well as a mail gateway and a packet sniffer. The Samba and Netatalk components are mostly for my personnal use though, and their use is not widespread across the company. We still run mainly Novell file and print servers as well as an NT here and there for good measure. My question is this: has anybody out there coupled the Samba and/or Netatalk components with FreeBSD and is using them as "fully fledged, primary" file and print servers in a corporate environment of 100-200+ mainly Windows (95, 98, NT, 2000) workstations (not just as a convenient gateway for data from a UNIX platform to a Windows/Mac platform)? Is this a feasible option? Can FreeBSD and Samba/Netatalk really substitute a Windows or Novell file and print server in a big corporate environment successfully (managment prejudice against open source notwithstanding)? I'm curious as to how one would work around what to me seem to be restrictions in the assignment of user rights (limited to ugoa+-rwx) in UNIX compared to the more "flexible" rights in NT, 2000, and Novell. I doubt our company's going to throw out it's Novell and NT servers in the near future, but since my FreeBSD machines have served me so well in the past year for all my TCP/IP needs, I was just wondering if it was viable to entertain the notion of FreeBSD and Samba/Netatalk as the basis for apt primary file and print servers in a large corporate environment. Thanks, -Martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message