I have an upcoming project to create a modern UNIX (mainly FreeBSD-based) workgroup computing environment.
If _YOU_ had your chance to do it from scratch, what technologies would you use? Basically only following are set in stone. Everything else is up to me: 1. Centralised user/password/account management 2. 2-3 file servers running FreeBSD, 1 mail server and 1 VPN gateway also running FreeBSD 3. Workstations will be 75% FreeBSD and 25% Mac OS X 10.2 Most people I have spoken to automatically say NIS/NFS. Although I know that NIS/NFS is a tried and true combination, I can't help but feel there must be a better way to do a modern BSD UNIX environment. As silly as it may sound I am seriously thinking about running Samba for file sharing services even though this is a fully UNIX environment. Reasons for this include excellent performance on FreeBSD and better security than NFS. Some of the other authentication/account management technologies I'm evaluating include LDAP and Kerberos. Any and comments/suggestions would be very well received... Basically what I'm asking is if you could do it all over from scratch how would you do a modern BSD UNIX workgroup? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you like to receive faxes to your personal email address? You can with mBox. Visit http://www.mbox.com.au/fax To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
