From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 23 18:19:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (ha1.rdc2.occa.home.com [24.2.8.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65A3E156DB for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:19:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbettle@criterion-group.com) Received: from criterion-group.com ([24.5.44.161]) by mail.rdc2.occa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990724011859.VFMA23826.mail.rdc2.occa.home.com@criterion-group.com>; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:18:59 -0700 Message-ID: <37991514.DF66297F@criterion-group.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 18:21:24 -0700 From: Roy Bettle X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Michaels Cc: Clarence Chan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD with UPS, anti-virus and Backup References: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105ACD@site2s1> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------D79B64925E284A9C8B752318" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D79B64925E284A9C8B752318 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I agree on the security part. We're inside a fairly tight firewall (all Win9x boxes are behind the firewall) so it's not much of an issue for us. RAB Christopher Michaels wrote: > Only if you want shoddy security. Samba does require you to keep a separate > password file for samba to use encrypted passwords, but it DOES work with > encrypted passwords. > > If this is not a security issue, then enabled plain text passwords for > convenience sake. > > -Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Roy Bettle [SMTP:rbettle@criterion-group.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 3:45 AM > > To: Clarence Chan; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: FreeBSD with UPS, anti-virus and Backup > > > > One thing about using SMB (Samba) and Windows 98 - you have to enable > > plain text > > passwords in Win98 to allow your users to connect to your SMB shares. SMB > > requires plain text passwords and Windows 98 now sends encrypted text > > passwords > > (win95 sent plain text passwords). > > > > Look over the file "network.txt" in your "c:\windows" directory on a Win98 > > box > > for how this is done. > > > > RAB > > > > Clarence Chan wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > Thank you so much, I will try to look for BRU in the ports. > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > Chan > > > > > > >From: Roy Bettle > > > >To: Clarence Chan , > > freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > >Subject: Re: FreeBSD with UPS, anti-virus and Backup > > > >Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 00:00:02 -0700 > > > > > > > >Clarence; > > > > > > > >Good evening. As to the management of your APC SmartUPS, "PowerChute" > > is > > > >available for UNIX which should run just fine on your FreeBSD box. > > > > > > > >Don't know about the anti-virus part, however if you configure the > > > >workstations' anti-virus packages to scan their respective SMB (Samba) > > > >shares, > > > >you should be able to adequately address this issue. > > > > > > > >As to your back-up question, check out BRU (comes with FreeBSD in the > > ports > > > >collection I believe). We use BRU on our FreeBSD and Linux boxes and > > find > > > >it > > > >works flawlessly. > > > > > > > >Hope it helps! > > > > > > > >RAB > > > > > > > > > > > >Clarence Chan wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > I wish to use FreeBSD and Samba and my File and Print server, I'm > > > >switching > > > > > from Netware 4.11, as I think FreeBSD is so much better. > > > > > > > > > > 1) I wish to know if there is any UPS solution for FreeBSD(I already > > > >have a > > > > > APC UPS hardware), is there any FREE UPS software to work with it? > > > > > > > > > > 2)Is there any anti-virus for FreeBSD to scan for DOS/Win95 > > virus(I'm > > > >using > > > > > Samba o share my filespace to Win95 users0? > > > > > > > > > > 3) I have a BackupExec tape backup hardware, is there any FREE > > software > > > >to > > > > > work with it? > > > > > > > > > > Thanks you so much!!! > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > > > > > Chan > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > > > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > ><< rbettle.vcf >> > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ > > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com << File: Card for > > Roy Bettle >> --------------D79B64925E284A9C8B752318 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="rbettle.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Roy Bettle Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rbettle.vcf" begin:vcard n:Bettle;Roy tel;work:(949) 452-1203 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.criterion-group.com org:Criterion Group, Inc. version:2.1 email;internet:rbettle@criterion-group.com title:President note:Businesses that depend on computers, depend on us. adr;quoted-printable:;;26895 Aliso Creek Road=0D=0ASuite B404;Aliso Viejo;CA;92656;USA fn:Bettle, Roy end:vcard --------------D79B64925E284A9C8B752318-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message