From: Thees Peereboom 

Geo,

... and what are these 'network disk devices' usually running? I'm with
you, a NAS is the easiest and cheapest. VAR's don't like them, though. No
upgrades, no maintenace, no etc.

- Thees Peereboom

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 19:11:09 -0400, Geo.  wrote:

> "Thees Peereboom"  wrote in message
> news:oprqjstzx57q6jhl{at}news.barkto.com...
>
>> There are many cases where I fail to understand why somebody spends
>> 1000's
>> of euros for a simple F&P server that has to run Windows, while it could
>> run Linux or BSD for almost next to nothing.
>
> Same here but I fail to understand why they would even waste a computer
> for
> this, buy a network disk device and use network printers or print
> servers.
> F&P is a commodity function in todays world. The flexibility of network
> printers or print servers is fantastic compared to a server based
> solution
> of any kind.
>
> The only time I see where an NT server can be enticing for F&P is when
> you
> are running a domain for the common login functions. Then I can see where
> the security model can be enough of a draw to justify the expense.
>
> I would guess that the draw to use Linux for straight F&P would be where
> you
> have a spare machine with lots of disk sitting idle, then you could save
> the
> costs of a network drive and print servers by downloading and installing
> linux assuming you can get it setup in a reasonable amount of time. But
> to
> my way of thinking it's really easy to end up spending more time setting
> it
> up than the network disk/print servers would cost so you gotta be good to
> do
> it efficiently.
>
> Geo.
>
>
>

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