From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 18 15:15:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14173 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:15:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server4.mpcbbs.com.br (server4.mpc.com.br [200.246.0.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA14127 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:14:50 GMT (envelope-from capriotti@geocities.com) Received: from hot_nt (node36.mpc.com.br [200.246.0.36]) by server4.mpcbbs.com.br (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id TAA12376; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 19:14:24 -0300 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980418191401.00a22b50@pop.mpc.com.br> X-Sender: capriotti@pop.mpc.com.br X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 19:14:29 -0300 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22Ricardo_Manuel_N=FA=F1ez_Chirino=22?= , "FreeBSD Questions" From: Capriotti Subject: Re: About FreeBSD and Samba as a big server Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA14138 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Saludos, Ricardo. At 05:51 PM 4/18/98 -0400, Ricardo Manuel Núñez Chirino wrote: > >2) What if I use Samba??? Would it be a stable file server and print >service server to 150 machines running Windows NT Workstation (still being >a pop mail server)?? > Regarding your question about Samba, yes, it will be VERY stable and VERY fast. Faster than NT itself, not to mention stability. I can't tell you about how fast it will actually be, since my experience is limited to small groups only, but reading email is not that hard - provided your users don't send one each other 5MB files every hour. Samba will also run fina with your configuration, for most office applications. I mean that, if you intend to use this HW for LucasArts, while thy are preparing a sequence of takes, it wont be good enought, but considering normal levels of work around the offices, yes, it will be good enought. www.cdrom.com and ftp.freebsd.com have a configuration close to that, and serve up to 3000 hits/day (is that right ?), maybe more, w/o much loss. I hope it was of any help. If not, write to us again. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message