name all the uses for samba

[Vulpes Velox]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 01:07:50 -0400
Dragoncrest <dragoncrest at voyager.net> wrote:

> 	Ok, I've gotta convince my boss to switch from windows 2000 to freebsd for 
> all our internal needs.  So far I've half convinced him, but I've hit a 
> snag.  I know that Samba can be used for a lot of things, and I'm trying to 
> tell him all the things that Samba will do, but I can't think of many.  Can 
> you guys name all the uses for samba?  I've already talked him into 
> replacing our windows firewall, mail and other basic servers with freebsd, 
> but we've still got a couple of domain servers to get rid of and I know 
> that Samba can replace them as well.  Can you guys help me out here?  Maybe 
> toss in a little TCO jargon so that he sees it both from a technical side 
> as well as what matters most ot him.  Money.  THanks!!


Samba...
1: Printer sharing
2: file sharing/network drive

Since you are asking this, I would really suggest holding off awhile befor
pushing for it. I would suggest toying around with it, learning it, and then
pushing it.