From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 11:02:22 2003 Return-Path: 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 3C2B637B401 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zetmail2.zetron.com (zetmail2.zetron.com [216.202.42.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC3C43F75 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:02:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kurtbuff@spro.net) Received: by zetmail2.zetron.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E954956E55; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:01:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bfgapollo1 (bfgapollo1.zetron.com [192.168.5.63]) by zetmail2.zetron.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 7256F56E38; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:01:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kurt" To: "'Dragoncrest'" , Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 11:02:14 -0700 Message-ID: <00c901c347d6$9034d1e0$3f05a8c0@bfgapollo1> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030711010400.00a47ec0@pop.voyager.net> Importance: Normal X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-Sanitizer: Zetron Anti-spam filter MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: RE: name all the uses for samba X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: kurtbuff@spro.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:02:22 -0000 It's going to take some real work to get it to replace the Win2k AD infrastructure if that's what you have. OTOH, if you are using the NT4 domain infrastructure, it's supposed to work well (haven't implemented it, but here's a link if you want it: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/tutorials/samba.html.) Firewalling, email serving and other non-SMB based stuff is not really covered by SAMBA, although FreeBSD can certainly do all that. Other than Active Directory, the only really difficult thing to replace will be your Exchange server, if you have one, and if you use it for groupware stuff, or for group calendaring, especially with Outlook clients. There may be acceptable group calendaring apps that are acceptable, but I haven't run into them yet, and the groupware just isn't there yet, from what I've seen. | -----Original Message----- | From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org | [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dragoncrest | Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 22:08 | To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG | Subject: name all the uses for samba | | | Ok, I've gotta convince my boss to switch from windows | 2000 to freebsd for | all our internal needs. So far I've half convinced him, but | I've hit a | snag. I know that Samba can be used for a lot of things, and | I'm trying to | tell him all the things that Samba will do, but I can't think | of many. Can | you guys name all the uses for samba? I've already talked him into | replacing our windows firewall, mail and other basic servers | with freebsd, | but we've still got a couple of domain servers to get rid of | and I know | that Samba can replace them as well. Can you guys help me | out here? Maybe | toss in a little TCO jargon so that he sees it both from a | technical side | as well as what matters most ot him. Money. THanks!! | | _______________________________________________ | freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list | http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions | To unsubscribe, send any mail to | "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" |