From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 15 0:14:55 2003 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 9CCCF37B401 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:14:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.mbox.com.au (203-134-146-019.cust.pth.iprimus.net.au [203.134.146.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABB943F75 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:14:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd-freak@mbox.com.au) Received: from nms2.mbox.com.au (webmail.mbox.com.au [192.168.20.4]) by smtp2.mbox.com.au (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.4.0.2000.05.17.04.13.p6) with ESMTP id <0HAC00EBMBU9G6@smtp2.mbox.com.au> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 16:06:09 +0800 (WST) Received: from mbox.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by nms2.mbox.com.au (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id HACC2702.7RH for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 16:10:55 +0800 Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:10:55 +1100 From: BSD Freak Subject: A modern BSD UNIX workgroup - how would you do it? To: FreeBSD Questions Message-id: <27c344427c532e.27c532e27c3444@mbox.com.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have an upcoming project to create a modern UNIX (mainly FreeBSD-based) workgroup computing environment. If _YOU_ had your chance to do it from scratch, what technologies would you use? Basically only following are set in stone. Everything else is up to me: 1. Centralised user/password/account management 2. 2-3 file servers running FreeBSD, 1 mail server and 1 VPN gateway also running FreeBSD 3. Workstations will be 75% FreeBSD and 25% Mac OS X 10.2 Most people I have spoken to automatically say NIS/NFS. Although I know that NIS/NFS is a tried and true combination, I can't help but feel there must be a better way to do a modern BSD UNIX environment. As silly as it may sound I am seriously thinking about running Samba for file sharing services even though this is a fully UNIX environment. Reasons for this include excellent performance on FreeBSD and better security than NFS. Some of the other authentication/account management technologies I'm evaluating include LDAP and Kerberos. Any and comments/suggestions would be very well received... Basically what I'm asking is if you could do it all over from scratch how would you do a modern BSD UNIX workgroup? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you like to receive faxes to your personal email address? You can with mBox. Visit http://www.mbox.com.au/fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message