Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Carey Posted At: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 1:28 PM Posted To: FreeBSD-Questions Conversation: Kernel Options fo a File Server Subject: Kernel Options fo a File Server Hello, What would be the best Kernel

Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread PeterPluta
of my hardware. Ivan Carey wrote: Hello, What would be the best Kernel options to run a file server? I will be using an Intel server mother board with one Xeon quad core CPU installed (this mother board has 2 CPU sockets) 2GB RAM and dual 500Gb SATA HDD's I am thinking of options

Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread Tom Grove
in squeezing a little out of my hardware. Ivan Carey wrote: Hello, What would be the best Kernel options to run a file server? I will be using an Intel server mother board with one Xeon quad core CPU installed (this mother board has 2 CPU sockets) 2GB RAM and dual 500Gb SATA HDD's I am thinking

Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:42:17PM -0700, PeterPluta wrote: Ivan Carey wrote: Hello, What would be the best Kernel options to run a file server? I will be using an Intel server mother board with one Xeon quad core CPU installed (this mother board has 2 CPU sockets) 2GB RAM and dual

Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-22 Thread Ivan Carey
Hello, What would be the best Kernel options to run a file server? I will be using an Intel server mother board with one Xeon quad core CPU installed (this mother board has 2 CPU sockets) 2GB RAM and dual 500Gb SATA HDD's I am thinking of options that would make the kernel efficient as a pure

Re: Kernel Options fo a File Server

2007-05-22 Thread Josh Paetzel
Ivan Carey wrote: Hello, What would be the best Kernel options to run a file server? I will be using an Intel server mother board with one Xeon quad core CPU installed (this mother board has 2 CPU sockets) 2GB RAM and dual 500Gb SATA HDD's I am thinking of options that would make

Samba file server with ActiveDirectory accounts... pw usershow not working

2006-10-20 Thread Ashley Moran
Hi I asked about this a while back and a few of you were good enough to give me some pointers. I've been forced to look again at Samba because the single unmirrored disk not covered by the backup scripts that a certain sysadmin installed crashed the other day. So I thought we need a

A big File Server

2005-12-03 Thread kyr
A big File Server I’m the administrator of a student network of 350 people in the student campus of Xanthi Greece. We are NOT funded by the university or anybody else so we pay for everything in our network. I use FreeBSD for over a year now for our main server and I’m very happy

File Server Which would you choose?

2005-11-18 Thread Sean Murphy
I want to set up a FreeBSD file server and want to choose the appropriate method. The filesytems must be mounted on the client, always available, and transparent to the user. NFS for *nix to *nix only NIS for better management of NFS Can OSX mount and respond to NFS/NIS? What other OSs can

Re: File Server Which would you choose?

2005-11-18 Thread Derrick MacPherson
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 09:19 -0800, Sean Murphy wrote: I want to set up a FreeBSD file server and want to choose the appropriate method. The filesytems must be mounted on the client, always available, and transparent to the user. NFS for *nix to *nix only NIS for better management of NFS

Re: File Server Which would you choose?

2005-11-18 Thread Bob Johnson
On 11/18/05, Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to set up a FreeBSD file server and want to choose the appropriate method. The filesytems must be mounted on the client, always available, and transparent to the user. [...] Any thing for connecting to a Novell Server? NDS and Bindrey

File Server Questions

2005-11-16 Thread Sean Murphy
I want to set up a FreeBSD file server and want to choose the appropriate method. The filesytems must be mounted on the client, always available, and transparent to the user. Thanks === NFS for *nix to *nix only NIS for better management of NFS Can OSX mount and respond to NFS/NIS? What

Re: Security port: automated integration in the mail/file server - to do or not to do ?

2005-01-13 Thread Adi Pircalabu
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:58:10 +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I try to make my ports as user friendly and automated as possible, I would vote for 2) above. I hate when something just changes on my system without me telling it to do so explicitly; plus I could very well

Security port: automated integration in the mail/file server - to do or not to do ?

2005-01-12 Thread Adi Pircalabu
Hello, I'm working for a security port and I noticed that none of the existing ones integrate their filters automatically after install, regardless of the agent they are installed for. Instead, every port gives (usually from pkg-message) the necessary information on how to integrate the filter.

Re: Security port: automated integration in the mail/file server - to do or not to do ?

2005-01-12 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:21:02 +0200 Adi Pircalabu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm working for a security port and I noticed that none of the existing ones integrate their filters automatically after install, regardless of the agent they are installed for. Instead, every port gives

File Server

2004-10-12 Thread Scott Rothgaber
Good Morning! Here at the shop, there is a mixture of W2K workstations and FreeBSD 4.10 servers. Is there a non-NetBIOS file server that runs on FreeBSD that will allow access to files from the windows clients? We're already using samba, but I don't allow any NetBIOS traffic through our

Re: File Server

2004-10-12 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 15:54, you wrote: Good Morning! Here at the shop, there is a mixture of W2K workstations and FreeBSD 4.10 servers. Is there a non-NetBIOS file server that runs on FreeBSD that will allow access to files from the windows clients? We're already using samba, but I

Re: File Server

2004-10-12 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
Scott Rothgaber wrote: Good Morning! Here at the shop, there is a mixture of W2K workstations and FreeBSD 4.10 servers. Is there a non-NetBIOS file server that runs on FreeBSD that will allow access to files from the windows clients? We're already using samba, but I don't allow any NetBIOS

Re: File Server

2004-10-12 Thread Eric Crist
On Oct 12, 2004, at 10:54 AM, Scott Rothgaber wrote: Good Morning! Here at the shop, there is a mixture of W2K workstations and FreeBSD 4.10 servers. Is there a non-NetBIOS file server that runs on FreeBSD that will allow access to files from the windows clients? We're already using samba

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-12 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wednesday 12 November 2003 04:10, Tom Munro Glass wrote: Thanks Chris. Please take a look at my reply to Scott because the two of you seem to be suggesting contradicting ideas, and I'm keen to learn why! Have done. It's just my preference

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-12 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Thanks Chris and Scott for your input on this subject - I've found it most helpful. The freedom to tweak the system to your own way of working is great, and I now feel I am better informed on how to do this without doing anything radical that I will regret in years to come. Thanks again to

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 02:52, Tom Munro Glass wrote: I guessed there isn't a default, but I thought there might be a convention for this and I want to follow conventions where ever possible. I prefer to put things onto /usr/home (e.g.

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Depends on what philosophy you subscribe to- if it's on a local system only, then create a group for members that will need access to it, and create a directory in the /home tree, like /home/'project_foo If it's going to be NFS mounted by other systems, then create an /export directory and

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Howells
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:38, Tom Munro Glass wrote: filesystem for /home, should I mount this at /home and make /usr/home a link to /home, or do I just mount it at /usr/home? The latter is probably preferable. - -- Cheers, Chris

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: Depends on what philosophy you subscribe to- if it's on a local system only, then create a group for members that will need access to it, and create a directory in the /home tree, like /home/'project_foo If it's going to be NFS mounted by other systems, then create an

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
Hi Tom- /usr doesn't _have_ to be mounted read-only, but it's not uncommon to do it on systems connected to the net/susceptible to hacking/just for security. Default Sun for home is /export home, primarily b/c Solaris thinks it's always the NFS server ;-) Most Linux distros use /home, and

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:47, Chris Howells wrote: Hi, On Tuesday 11 November 2003 19:38, Tom Munro Glass wrote: filesystem for /home, should I mount this at /home and make /usr/home a link to /home, or do I just mount it at /usr/home? The latter is probably preferable. Thanks Chris. Please

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-11 Thread Scott W
Tom Munro Glass wrote: Hi Tom- /usr doesn't _have_ to be mounted read-only, but it's not uncommon to do it on systems connected to the net/susceptible to hacking/just for security. Default Sun for home is /export home, primarily b/c Solaris thinks it's always the NFS server ;-) Most Linux

Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are common to many users? Would this be something like /usr/home/public or /usr/local/public or even /var/public? Thanks, Tom Munro Glass

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-10 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are common to many users? Would this be something like /usr/home/public or /usr

Re: Newbie: Correct directory for file server

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Munro Glass
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 15:31, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:53:20PM +1300, Tom Munro Glass wrote: On an intranet file server, the users' private files are obviously stored in /usr/home/username but where is the correct place to store files that are common to many users

http file server

2003-10-30 Thread Ajitesh
correct me also help me. My idea is to build an http file server. OS: Naturally I am going to use FreeBSD Hardware: May be I will buy two (2) 50 Gb IDE disks. Is 256 Mb ram is enough or need more? What kind of backup system we should put? Which is reliable RAID controller? Or What size

Re: http file server

2003-10-30 Thread Mike Maltese
. Present requirements: 50 Gb disk space, web access password protected directories/folders and less expensive. My idea is to build an http file server. It would be pretty easy to build some kind of file browsing system with PHP or Perl. You could also use either of these for whatever authentication

Re: http file server

2003-10-30 Thread Florian Villoing
me. My idea is to build an http file server. OS: Naturally I am going to use FreeBSD Hardware: May be I will buy two (2) 50 Gb IDE disks. Is 256 Mb ram is enough or need more? What kind of backup system we should put? Which is reliable RAID controller? Or What size of Dat's. etc. Appls

Re: http file server

2003-10-30 Thread Khairil Yusof
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 02:54, Ajitesh wrote: Hi Friends, I have been asked to come up with some kind of system so that our company can share the data drawings with different customers and vendors. A very good and quick CMS setup for this kinda thing: http://www.plone.org freebsd port:

wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacity file-server

2002-11-21 Thread David Smithson
Hi. I'm seeking suggestions for sysctl variables to use on a highly-taxed mission-critical file-server. This computer exports two 630GB arrays via SAMBA over gigabit on 3ware escalades. Anyone have any tips? The reason I'm asking is because smbd has been dropping processes lately. I recently

Re: wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacity file-server

2002-11-21 Thread david
[snip] 6 Nov 21 04:20:01 fnord /kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 208 to 200 packets per second This is because you have 'options ICMP_BANDLIM' in your kernel config. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacity file-server

2002-11-21 Thread david
On Thursday 21 November 2002 20:08, david wrote: [snip] 6 Nov 21 04:20:01 fnord /kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 208 to 200 packets per second This is because you have 'options ICMP_BANDLIM' in your kernel config. Further more you can increase this by setting

Re: wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacity file-server

2002-11-21 Thread David Smithson
Hi. 6 Nov 21 04:20:01 fnord /kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 208 to 200 packets per second This is because you have 'options ICMP_BANDLIM' in your kernel config. Further more you can increase this by setting net.inet.icmp.icmplim: 200 using sysctl. That's what I

Re: wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacity file-server

2002-11-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 21), David Smithson said: Hi. I'm seeking suggestions for sysctl variables to use on a highly-taxed mission-critical file-server. This computer exports two 630GB arrays via SAMBA over gigabit on 3ware escalades. Anyone have any tips? The reason I'm asking

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