I am new to BSD

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:52:50AM -0700, Magel, Reid (DIS) wrote:

> Here is what I want to use it for.
> 
> I have background in the Avaya/Lucent PBX world and I know how reliable
> Unix is.
> 
> I would like to install a "version of unix"  on  a computer and just use
> it for the following purposes.
> 
> 1.	I want to add a couple terabyte drives to it and share them on
> my network.   I want my kids and wife to be able to backup their files
> from a Windows XP, Windows7 or Vista machine to these terabyte drives.
> 2.	I want to be able to load Asterisk on this machine and utilize a
> couple digitrex boards.
> 3.	I may attach a printer to this box and share it across my
> network.
> 
> Let me know your thoughts.

Sounds like a good idea.

Samba can handle connections from the MS machines.
I am not familiar with Asterisk, but it is in the ports
at /usr/ports/net/asterisk

You may want to go with an AMD64 type CPU system rather than i386
because the sizes  you are talking about are pretty big - though
far from too big for either.

////jerry


> 
> Thanks reid
> 
> David (Reid) Magel
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