From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 15 18:58:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 216.24.138.2127.0.0.1 (Mta.lvdi.net [216.24.138.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22BBD14C0A for ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:58:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from notme@lvdi.net) Received: from lvdi.net ([216.24.141.60]) by 216.24.138.2127.0.0.1 ; Tue, 15 Jun 1999 18:57:31 -PDT Message-ID: <37670660.A97F5F9F@lvdi.net> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 19:05:20 -0700 From: notme Organization: me++ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: FreeBSD + Samba to substitute Netware Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, The following is kinda a opinion question... I am just wondering if it would be wise to substitute a Netware server with FreeBSD + Samba. I have setup a FBSD server during last semester for my high school. (We got some new PCs, and Apple AIX sever no longer can serve) We are planning to get Net- ware this coming school year (1999-2000), and I am wondering if there is a way, or if it wise to continue using FreeBSD instead. (Since everything is setup, and I have shell script to add all users. :) Basically, we only do file serving (we don't even have e-mail), and we have Foolproof for security in Windoze. We currently have 3 labs of 40 PII 350s, which I found FreeBSD to have no problem serving... We also have several hundred Apple G3s, and if I'm correct, Netatalk will allow FreeBSD servers to communicate with Macs. I believe one of the main reason we're approaching Netware is for its security. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is a logon procedure for Netware clients, right?) But I am wondering, if there is ports similar to Netware's. (the Client-server relation, logon... stuff like that) I personally have not experience with Netware, and of course, I do not know its ability. However, I much prefer the FreeBSD since I have much more experience with it. Thank you in advance for any opinion! Frankie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message