Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 02:51:45 -0700 From: notme <notme@lvdi.net> To: "P. McNeill" <pmcneill@monterey.k12.ca.us> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Fileserver? Message-ID: <3770AE31.8AC9AD7C@lvdi.net> References: <377051CA.3E2BDD51@monterey.k12.ca.us>
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Hi,
You can definitly use FreeBSD as a fileserver. In fact,
I have setup one for my own high school. (Durango High
School, Las Vegas. My teacher loved it! :) You can use
Samba, which allows PCs to see the FreeBSD server, and
NetATalk, which allows filesharing with Macs. Printers
can also be shared using Samba. (However, I am not sure
about Macs since I have no experience with NetATalk)
If you would want more information, you can check out
www.samba.org
www.freebsd.org
or
contact me through e-mail. I personally wrote a program that
writes a csh shell script for adding users. (it reads in from an
external file, which contains username, password, period, and
room number. Please, parton me for the "hacky solution",
I personally don't know much about shell scripts.)
The best of all is, all the user added could be destroyed by setting
an expiration day on their account! :) And all of these is FREE! :)
Frankie Li
"P. McNeill" wrote:
> I need to provide 100 MB of filespace for each of 2000 users (high
> school students and staff). I will have Macs and PCs. There will be
> peak periods of I/O that occur just after and just before the school
> bell rings (Teacher: "3 minutes until the end of the period. File,
> Save, Quit!" Each student needs a 100 page per year print limit. Is
> FreeBSD the server solution I need?
>
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