From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 14 19:26:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from spool.webzone.net (mail.webzone.net [205.219.23.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2916714F2F for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:26:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from murban@webzone.net) Received: from webzone.net ([208.152.96.26]) by spool.webzone.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-12689) with ESMTP id AAA8329 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:30:23 -0500 Message-ID: <3765BA55.5F84D592@webzone.net> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:28:37 -0500 From: Mike Urban Reply-To: murban@webzone.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can FreeBSD and Samba replace Netware? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am currently working with a situation in which I have a netware server that mostly just acts as a file server and a print server. It has several Windows 95 PC's connected to it that use it this way. We want to add intranet and email services to it, but there is no cheap way to do this with Netware. I have been considering the idea of completely getting rid of the Netware server and installing a FreeBSD server with Samba in it's place. Will Samba allow me to map FreeBSD file systems to DOS drives? In other words, will my applications on the Windows PC's be able to access files seemlessly on the FreeBSD server just like they do now under Netware? Basically, I need the server to do the same thing it is doing now, but with the addition of intranet and email services. Is Samba and FreeBSD is viable solution? Thanks, Mike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message