Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 18:12:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Alex Knowles <alex@targeting.co.uk>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: newbie setup Message-ID: <19981016181243.G514@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <615CAC0140CED111AF1500805FEDDB8A094A4E@ns.new-mediacom.co.uk>; from Alex Knowles on Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:16:55AM %2B0100 References: <615CAC0140CED111AF1500805FEDDB8A094A4E@ns.new-mediacom.co.uk>
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On Friday, 16 October 1998 at 9:16:55 +0100, Alex Knowles wrote: > Hi first post etc etc I hope this is to the right place! Well, no, this is for discussing hardware. I've replied to FreeBSD-questions, which is the correct address. > I'm about to set a new server system for the company i work for and was > planning to set a bsd box to run the web server/internal file server/print > server. > > At the moment a nt box handles (ish!) all this, and i want to keep this as > an outlook server for mail etc. > > Can anyone forsee any problems with this plan? Yes. Outlook is one of the most obscene programs I have ever seen. Most messages I receive from Outlook are mutilated in some way or another. > the office uses nt and mac. I have previously used redhat (this is > probably a dangerous admission to make on this group!!) and I know > that it can only see fat16 on internal partitions, but it would be > ok to use smb to see nt folders (i hope this is ok!). Should be. If you're running a server, you should only have one OS on the system, so you won't have any local Microsoft partitions. > so acouple of questions: > will Nt be able to read files stored on the bsd box and vice versa If you use Samba, yes. > will macs be able to do the same (particularly g3's) I don't know. You'd presumably need Appletalk, about which I know nothing. > will an nt outlook server be able to run in parallel I don't know. I don't do Microsoft. It seems unlikely that you could have any two machines running in parallel and receiving the same mail. But you could get the FreeBSD box to forward the messages to the Microsoft box and also deliver mail locally. > we also want to have an automatic dat backup, can anyone > forsee any problems/software we need etc. No. You don't need any special software, though I'm sure lots of people will recommend things like Amanda (Ports Collection). > or is it easier for an nt box to do this ? It's definitely not easier for an NT box to handle tapes. They seem to have implemented tape handling as an afterthought. > 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 Looks fine. > I'm really sorry this post is so long. Well, not really. It's less than one page. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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