From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 18 15:27:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15650 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:27:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15634 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:27:11 GMT (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA17553; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd017547; Sat Apr 18 22:21:41 1998 Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:16:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ricardo_Manuel_N=FA=F1ez_Chirino?= cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: About FreeBSD and Samba as a big server In-Reply-To: <19980418214607.AAC21349@telcel.telcel.net.ve> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id WAA15635 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, [ISO-8859-1] Ricardo Manuel Núñez Chirino wrote: > > 1) What do you think about the performance and stability of my PC if I used > it with FreeBSD as a pop mail server to 150 users? The users would > read their mails using other computers (they won´t use Telnet to read their > mails). Will work well.. we use a 486 for 80 people using POP and IMAP4 > > 2) What if I use Samba??? Would it be a stable file server and print > service server to 150 machines running Windows NT Workstation (still being > a pop mail server)?? that will also work well I've heard of people using such a machine for hundreds of users. You can also use netatalk to share the sme printers and files with Any random MAC users that might exist as well. julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message