Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 05:42:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de> To: Thomas Moyer <tommoyer@atlanticbb.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: home directory questions Message-ID: <20040630051626.Y7597@pukruppa.net> In-Reply-To: <40E1A6A2.6060001@atlanticbb.net> References: <40E1A6A2.6060001@atlanticbb.net>
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Thomas Moyer wrote:
> Is it possible to setup a file server with FreeBSD and use that as a home
> partition and also share other files on a small network?
> What kinds of utilities would I need to run? I imagine NFS for *nix clients
> and Samba for MS clients. Also possibly share printers with this computer as
> well. CUPS for that.
> Also what kind a minimum system reccomendations does anyone have?
This cannot be predicted as long as you don't know what kind of
setup you want to run (simple file server, domain controller
...), what kind of people are going to use it (people at work
will kill you if their files aren't available, especially
that kind who always forget their passwords) and how big the
traffic on your server is.
So I would recommend to test your setup privately on some old
machine that can install FreeBSD and then ask again for hardware
requirements.
Regards,
Uli.
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| Peter Ulrich Kruppa |
| Wuppertal |
| Germany |
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