On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 21:47, Sanjeewa Wijerathne wrote: > --- Charles <charlesnjohnson@tds.net> wrote: > kill > all wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Im trying to setup a samba server to do > > > Authentication, file serving for 300+ users. The > > > server is a Compaq ML 330. Do you think this > > server > > > can handle it. > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > -- > > > sanjeewa. > > > > > > > > What are the specs for the server? Memory?, CPU type > > and speed? How > > many users connected simultaneously? On average, how > > big are the > > files these users want to get at? Several K? Several > > Meg? In the > > Gigabyte range? Text files? > > > > Cheers-- > > Charles > > > Oh , I fogot to put the spces , > Pentium III 1.40 GHz. > 1GB RAM. > 40 GB HD. > 20MB disk quota for 300+ users. > ------ Roaming profiles would be a problem. I would think that the computer is capable depending upon... - don't put the network infrastructure on this machine too. Don't install x, make it dhcp, dns, http and ldap server. Maybe another machine (or 2 or 3 or 4) to do this. - network subnetting is critical - switches would definitely help. - consider multiple subnets with multiple nic's on the server. For example, my first thought would be to have... 4 subnets of 75 users 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0 192.168.3.0/255.255.255.0 4 NIC's in the server 192.168.0.1/192.168.1.1/192.168.2.1/192.168.3.1 save the first 9 ip addresses in each subnet for other servers... 192.168.0.2-192.168.0.10 put printers on the next 10 addresses 192.168.0.11-192.168.0.20 issue dhcp addresses starting at 192.168.0.21-192.168.0.199 reserve ip addresses starting at 192.168.0.200 for other things such as dial-up - if this is a school and you would have an entire class of like 20/30 students hitting the server at the same time, be prepared for some lags. - you would really want a backup domain controller which really isn't possible with samba 2.x...but for 300 users, consider taking another computer and leaving it mostly idle and using something like rsync to back up critical files such as passwd,group,shadow,smbpasswd,user directories. - finally, I would suggest that you consider the concepts in Networking for Peanuts series... <http://www.linuxworld.com/site-stories/2001/0823.xterminal.html> This concept would have you spread out the server workload amongst many computers which is possibly a good idea when you don't have the budget to buy enough iron to do the job with 1 computer. Craig -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
