From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Mar 13 12:19:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.ceconet.com (smtp.ceconet.com [199.1.19.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9D137B484 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 12:19:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from engmngr2 ([172.16.9.7]) by smtp.ceconet.com (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) ID# 0-40407U100L2S100) with SMTP id AAA271 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:11:03 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Christopher C Parrish" To: Subject: A Newbie Question Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:14:54 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This may need to be in the Question list, but, I am a Newbie looking for guidance. I am getting ready to start a small company. I do not have the money for the licenses needed for Microsoft Products. I have several computers that I will be able to upgrade and use as is without the need to purchase new ones. The machines are all PPros with 128 megs of ram and 4 gig hard drives. I have just purchased a Box Set of 4.4 along with the Toolkit and Greg Langhey's Book. I have also purchased Mrs. Anderson's Book as well. Will these two books be everything I need to setup my LAN for everybody to be able to get mail and surf the net from time to time? I have enough extra machines, I think, to setup various servers if needed. If I need to setup multiple servers, which ones will they be and why will I need them? The ones I think I will need are a firewall and a mail server. I will be doing all of the setting up and testing myself at home before I take the system live at the office. The main reason for me using FreeBSD in this application is that I have read that it is Bomb Proof. It may take some doing to learn BSD, but it is worth the time. Again, thanks for your time and if I posted in the wrong list, my apologies. Christopher Parrish To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message