[Gllug] Market for low-cost Linux servers/networks?

Jason Clifford jason at ukpost.com
Thu Sep 11 17:29:34 UTC 2003


On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Bernard Peek wrote:

> >I was thinking more of the typical small office running 'doze which could do
> >with a dedicated network firewall (iptables/PII 350Mhz) and a SAMBA server
> >(PIII 450Mhz) for file and printer sharing.
> 
> If you can add domain-controller to that list you may do better. That 
> saves the cost of a Windows server license, which is a substantial chunk 
> of moolah.

Samba will act as a PDC without any trouble at all. It's rather good at it 
too.

Jason Clifford
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