From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 23 2:43:54 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 1C961151D4 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 02:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from notme@lvdi.net) Received: from lvdi.net ([216.24.141.101]) by 216.24.138.2127.0.0.1 ; Wed, 23 Jun 1999 02:43:04 -PDT Message-ID: <3770AE31.8AC9AD7C@lvdi.net> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 02:51:45 -0700 From: notme Organization: me++ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "P. McNeill" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as Fileserver? References: <377051CA.3E2BDD51@monterey.k12.ca.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message