From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 21 14:39:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21346 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:39:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21320 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:39:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA01527; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:39:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:39:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Ola Samuelson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual CPUs and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <35B4B8E2.46F032E5@datalink.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Ola Samuelson wrote: > Hi, > We are considering throwing our NT server out and use FreeBSD as a > server. That would be an excellent choice. > Questions: > 1. Does FreeBSD make use of our two(2) Pentium 400MHZ motherboard? Yes, in CURRENT only. > 2. Does it work at all with two CPUs? Yes, in CURRENT only. > 3. Can we rely on SAMBA to enable filesharing with other systems > (W95/WNT)? Or how is this done? Yes, use Samba. > Many companies like ours, relatively small ones, are fed up with > Microsoft. > You could make deciding to go for BSD VERY easy by providing an example > setup for replacing a W95 or WNT box as a server with FreeBSD. A `Destroy NT' tutorial? If I can get my hands on a copy of NT Server and a spare machine I can make that happen. ``3 Easy Steps to Ridding Yourself of Microsoft Windows NT'' ... catchy? I'll take a look at this. Thanks for the suggestion! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message