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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!azure.xara.net!xara.net!accesscom.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news7.crl.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Fileserver Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 01:34:58 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <334F4931.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <3344220D.5C63@erols.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: larmstro@erols.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38950 Lynn wrote: > I'm thinking of using FreeBSD on a fileserver (for remote drive > mounting). It needs to serve both IBM compatables and Macs. It will > operate either on a TCP/IP or Appletalk network. Print, email, and web > serving will also be done, but are secondary. I would like to know > whether anyone has used FreeBSD in this role, and if so, with what > success. It works just fine. I'm running a Novell/Appletalk/TCPIP network here with FreeBSD serving all 3 (using the Netcon Novell server). > Another issue is with hardware. Does anyone know if I can use EIDE > tape drives or EIDE CD-ROM drives with FreeBSD? You can, but SCSI peripherpals are far far more desirable. -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.