Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-04 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Seur Bors wrote: As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would greatly appreciate them. Samba3 performs excellend nowadays. You should have no trouble at all serving 20 workers. In my setup (7.1-release/amd64/dual x2 3800 amd cpu/gigabit) smb generates only 3-5% cpu

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Samba3 performs excellend nowadays. You should have no trouble at all serving 20 workers. In my setup (7.1-release/amd64/dual x2 3800 amd cpu/gigabit) smb generates only 3-5% cpu load when reading at 50MB/sec. below 10% CPU when reading 8MB/s through fast ethernet link on PIII/500 I

FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Seur Bors
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

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Kurt Buff
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:42, Seur Bors seurb...@gmail.com 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

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Adam Vandemore
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

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:40:28 +0300, Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: 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

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Mikel King
On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:42 PM, 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.

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Lednev
Seur Bors пишет: As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would greatly appreciate them. You can try FreeNAS. It has standard file sharing with samba managed through web-interface and it also has many more nice features. Oh yeah, and it's FreeBSD. :)

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Tim Judd
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Michael Lednev rea...@reaper.yaroslavl.ruwrote: Seur Bors пишет: As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would greatly appreciate them. You can try FreeNAS. It has standard file sharing with samba managed through web-interface and

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Samba to support standard file sharing, is there any caveats or issues that anyone perceives? I've done multiple FreeBSD installations, and if you use windoze XP or newer and some multiuser programs like accounting etc. you will have to use veto oplock files man smb.conf for details

Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server

2009-04-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The latest samba port if very robust. You should find this trivial to complete. I encourage you to go with new hardware if possible. i use Pentium III 500Mhz, 384 MB ram as file serwer (samba) for 12 clients, and mail serwer, VoIP PBX and few less important things. works quick without