Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 19:06:39 -0500 From: "Brandon L. Newport" <bln@nc.prestige.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Need Assistance ASAP -- PLEASE Message-ID: <015001c07386$b7e05c40$1001220a@zeus>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Ok here is the deal, I am setting up a new server for a company (just happens to be my fathers). He has heard many things about Linux and has an NT server currently. The problem he "knows Windows really good", so about once a week he breaks things and calls me of course. He heard Linux was faster, better and of course cheaper than NT. So he wanted to go that route. However because I am technical support for him I would like to use FreeBSD instead. I know Linux pretty well. I work with Solaris and NT but I dont know FreeBSD. I am the the newbie stages of learning it. Here is the big problem, He just brought the parts for the server I spec'd out by yesterday. I have configured it and actually have FreeBSD installed. However I cannot get a few things working and it has to up and running by next Sunday 100%!!!! So here is the machine: Supermicro Motherboard P6DGU (Dual Processor, onboard SCSI, USB) Duel PIII - 650MHz processors 256MB RAM 9G IBM SCSI 4G IBM SCSI 2G Seagate SCSI 18G IBM SCSI Matrox G450 32MB Hitachi 17" Monitor Yamaha CD-RW Here is what he wants: (These are the things that have to up and running by next weekend or I will be force to use Linux or NT) file and print shares ( I dont know samba real good.....yet) dialout internet connectivity so that when other machines want to go to internet it auto dials performs NAT and acts as the firewall (I know this is not real secure but it will be a temporary fix) somehow to fetch email from his ISP accounts for all employees and download it locally to the server IMAP so he can check mail for any machine auto updates of OS auto backups using the CD-RW Eventually he would like faxes and voice mail to come and go from this machine by using email (not quite sure what I am going to do about that one) Apache Web Server PHP MySQL phpNuke Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated. Please email me directly for I dont a chance to check the news groups all the time. I will put together a website included on dads company page that explains how the system is configured and who all assisted. TIA, -- Brandon L. Newport ph 704.905.6024 [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ok here is the deal, I am setting up a new server for a company (just happens to be my fathers). He has heard many things about Linux and has an NT server currently. The problem he "knows Windows really good", so about once a week he breaks things and calls me of course. He heard Linux was faster, better and of course cheaper than NT. So he wanted to go that route. However because I am technical support for him I would like to use FreeBSD instead.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know Linux pretty well. I work with Solaris and NT but I dont know FreeBSD. I am the the newbie stages of learning it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is the big problem, He just brought the parts for the server I spec'd out by yesterday. I have configured it and actually have FreeBSD installed. However I cannot get a few things working and it has to up and running by next Sunday 100%!!!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So here is the machine:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Supermicro Motherboard P6DGU (Dual Processor, onboard SCSI, USB)<BR>Duel PIII - 650MHz processors<BR>256MB RAM<BR>9G IBM SCSI<BR>4G IBM SCSI<BR>2G Seagate SCSI<BR>18G IBM SCSI<BR>Matrox G450 32MB<BR>Hitachi 17" Monitor<BR>Yamaha CD-RW</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><BR>Here is what he wants: (These are the things that have to up and running by next weekend or I will be force to use Linux or NT)<BR>file and print shares ( I dont know samba real good.....yet)<BR>dialout internet connectivity so that when other machines want to go to internet it auto dials performs NAT and acts as the firewall (I know this is not real secure but it will be a temporary fix)<BR>somehow to fetch email from his ISP accounts for all employees and download it locally to the server<BR>IMAP so he can check mail for any machine<BR>auto updates of OS<BR>auto backups using the CD-RW</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Eventually he would like faxes and voice mail to come and go from this machine by using email (not quite sure what I am going to do about that one)<BR>Apache Web Server<BR>PHP<BR>MySQL<BR>phpNuke</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated. Please email me directly for I dont a chance to check the news groups all the time.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I will put together a website included on dads company page that explains how the system is configured and who all assisted.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>TIA,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-- <BR>Brandon L. Newport</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>ph 704.905.6024</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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