Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 01:41:15 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Alex Knowles <alex@targeting.co.uk> Cc: "'Freebsd-Hardware (E-mail)" <freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: newbie setup Message-ID: <199810160841.BAA01817@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 09:16:55 BST." <615CAC0140CED111AF1500805FEDDB8A094A4E@ns.new-mediacom.co.uk>
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> so acouple of questions: > will Nt be able to read files stored on the bsd box and vice versa Yes, and yes if you use the Sharity product (available in a free 'light' version or the full commercial version) > will macs be able to do the same (particularly g3's) You can support Appletalk filesharing with the BSD system, or you can use Samba and the "Dave" product for MacOS. > will an nt outlook server be able to run in parallel Yes. > we also want to have an automatic dat backup, can anyone forsee any > problems/software we need etc. or is it easier for an nt box to do this ? You almost certainly want two backups, one on each server. > and then hardware compatibility: > I shall probably have the following spec: > > PII 350 or 450 (if some spare cash is lying around!!!) > adaptec 2940 UW SCSI controller > 9 Gig Fast wide SCSI Hard drive > 100 Mb/s 3com network card > S3 Virge Graphics card > Connected to an optic line via a 3com router This is probably gross overkill; unless you have > 50 workstations you could probably swing it with a P166 and an IDE disk. A server like this doesn't need much CPU; if a slow PII would give you more cash for RAM or disk space, it's better spent there than on wasted cycles. For a good example doing basic file service: ftp.cdrom.com supports > 3000 simultaneous users at 400GB+/day throughput on a P6/200 with 1GB of RAM. You don't need lots of CPU; you want disk and RAM (for disk cache). If you're going to use a 3C905, make sure you're installing 2.2.7-stable on the system (ie. go to releng22.freebsd.org to do your install), as support for these cards was not in 2.2.7-RELEASE. Alternatively, use an Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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