Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:23:59 -0500 From: Adam Vandemore <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Seur Bors <seurbors@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server Message-ID: <49D6543F.8000007@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <26b281ee0904031042g754096d1k13d016b88d653cb8@mail.gmail.com> References: <26b281ee0904031042g754096d1k13d016b88d653cb8@mail.gmail.com>
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Seur Bors wrote: > Greetings, > > I am recommending a FreeBSD solution to replace an old business "file > server". The old server is running Windows 2000 Professional, and the > company has grown from the 5 employee setting to now two floors and > approximately 15 - 20 people. They were starting to get connection errors > to the Win2K machine, as I believe, without the Server version of the > software, file sharing and maps are severely limited. > > Anyways, my question is thus: In setting up a FreeBSD machine and utilizing > Samba to support "standard" file sharing, is there any caveats or issues > that anyone perceives? I've done multiple FreeBSD installations, and > utilize the Samba package to provide file sharing support in other small > businesses, but have not had to consider 20 connections at once. The > network connection is just a simple router to switch, all gigabit, and the > system I'm recommending to use as a server also has dual gigabit network > ports. > > As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would greatly > appreciate them. > > Regards, > > Seur Bors > Legate Commander > Knights Of The Old Code > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Well there's a lot of info that would be needed to a well reasoned "Yes, you can", but the short version is it shouldn't be an issue under normal office-like usage. Going from 5 to 20 connections in such a scenario is negligible. Samba system-agnostic tutorials are good sources of info, but best advice is probably to use info provided by their official documentation and mailing list. Also, I have fbsd systems running samba with 20+ connections under what I consider normal office environment with absolutely no issues except I can't figure out how to get XP to save persistent login password. -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610
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