Subject: Re: small home file/backup server
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/21/2002 16:10:54
Steve Bellovin said:

>How much CPU do I need?  Would a 233 Mhz Pentium or a 350 Mhz P II 
>suffice?  (I'll almost certainly use one of the Intel NIC cards.)  And 
>any suggestions on motherboards?

When I need to have a Windoze machine on my network, I run samba on the
same box that is also www.rmkhome.com and ftp.rmkhome.com.

A pentium 133 with 64 megs of memory running 1.4.3 on a switched 10/100
network. Works fine for a reasonable value of "fine".

-- 
Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com