Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 12:13:30 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: 100075.1013@CompuServe.COM (SAMES M.I.S.) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Message-ID: <199605211013.MAA23944@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <960520092131_100075.1013_EHK30-1@CompuServe.COM> from "SAMES M.I.S." at May 20, 96 05:21:31 am
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
SAMES M.I.S. writes: > > I found your name/address in the FreeBSD file. I've got a query regarding > FreeBSD. Let me state the problem. Sure, go right ahead :-) > We want to set up a UNIX machine, which will link to the Internet via a leased > line. This will become our internet mail/web server. All our users will connect > to the UNIX machine to do their internet mail/ftp jobs. They use PC's which is > linked via an Ethernet network to the UNIX machine. I have FreeBSD in mind, > because of the cost :-) > > We also want to create Web pages (i.e. a web-server) on this UNIX machine. > > Now for the questions. Is there a mail package available with > FreeBSD? Yes, several. sendmail is probably the MTA you want to use, and you have a choice of a number of mail readers. I'd guess that elm and pine are the most popular. > What > software does the PC's need to connect? (We're looking at installing Win4WG > and/or Win95) You need TCP/IP networking support. It's included in Windows 95%. > Is there web server software available for FreeBSD? Yes. > Will this type of setup work? Lots of people are doing it :-) One word of warning: the current FreeBSD documentation does not describe all aspects of setting up networks, in particular neither sendmail nor web servers. We're working on it, but it'll be a while. Before you start you should get hold of a book like "UNIX System Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth and Co. They describe BSD/OS, which is a commercial offering very similar to FreeBSD. > Or do I need to look at another UNIX OS? Not really. Other systems are more expensive, and they don't offer any better tools. > Sorry to bother you with questions like this! That's what we're here for. Greg
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199605211013.MAA23944>