"Ken Hansen" <khansen46@earthlink.net> writes: > How many concurrent connections would be possible on a file server running > Debian? Is it a limited number? Short answer: A lot of connections, not really. Long answer: Well, TCP/IP only allows for something like 65535 concurrent connections... > Also, does Debian provide for easy setup and administration of the > file server (creating directories and setting up permissions, etc) > through the GUI (KDE)? You can dink around with metadata in KDE. It is a desktop workstation type desktop environment... > I'm new to Linux, and don't know that I would be able to administer > this system from the command line at this point. Not to discourage you, but I suggest you get adequately familiar with that in case something goes wrong and you can't get X. > My hope is to get a Linux file server running to show it's stability > and reliability, and move toward more Linux solutions in the > future. It will also be a good chance for me to become more > proficient with Linux, and possibly be able to get the company to > help out with my training. There we go, work with it! -- .''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. debian.org aboutdebian.com
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