From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 17 21:25:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from surgery.uwa.edu.au (surgery.uwa.edu.au [130.95.234.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BD737B423 for ; Thu, 17 May 2001 21:25:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from R.Smith@cms.uwa.edu.au) Received: from rays.cms.uwa.edu.au (rays.surgery.uwa.edu.au [130.95.234.8]) by surgery.uwa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA10943 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 12:25:08 +0800 (WST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010518115934.00aaa010@cms.uwa.edu.au> X-Sender: rays@cms.uwa.edu.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 12:23:53 +0800 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ray Smith Subject: RE: NetMAX and FreeBSD upgrade Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, Here's more information on my situation. Machine is visible from outside and and I'm a little concerned over security issues, though I'm pretty happy with how it is set up at the moment. I'm starting to branch out in to other areas, and have to quite a bit out side of NetMAX, and thought that I might as well get rid of it completely. A number of the built in applications/functions are quite restrictive, and some even have bugs that now won't be fixed (I had to write my own incremental backup solution as the NetMAX one would not allow me to restore anything). Unfortunately I don't have another machine that can be used to replace the current server. I can probably use an old pentium to transfer "essentials" while the server is being worked on - things like our mail server, and the file server, but that would be about all it can cope with. Cheers Ray. >On Fri, 18 May 2001 09:58:26 +0800, Ray Smith wrote: > > >I have been running NetMAX as a Web, File and print server for a department > >for the past 18 months.It is using FreeBSD 3.3 as its operating system. The > >NetMAX products are no longer supporting FreeBSD, and I'm starting to get a > >little worried about not being able to upgrade the operating system. > >What is your case so we can better help you? >-Machine visible from outside and you are concerned about >security >-Security not an issue, but you were "thinking" about upgrading. >No current problems with existing setup. >-You have outgrown netmax and there are things you need to do >that Netmax is starting to get in the way. > > > >I'm running the following via NetMAX: > >Web Server, FTP server, mail server, windows file server, MacIntosh file > >server, print server. > >Do you have another machine you could start bringing up to speed >and move services as you configure them in the new machine? ----- Ray Smith Centre for Musculoskeletal Studies Department of Surgery University of Western Australia Royal Perth Hospital Medical Research Foundation Bldg Rear 50 Murray St, Perth, Western Australia, 6000 Ph: +61 8 9224 0307 Fax: +61 8 9224 0204 Email: R.Smith@cms.uwa.edu.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message