site poll.

[Dave J. Andruczyk]

> occasionally i feel like i and other people would like to know how samba
> is being used.  if you feel so inclined, could people kindly let us know
> some of the things below (pick one or more or all), such as:
> 
> - a brief description of your organisation.

Educational Institution  (College)
> 
> - what you use samba for (e.g as file servers; login servers; backup
> purposes or remote admin with smbclient or rpcclient).
> 

File print, and login servers. Currently have about 10 or more samba
servers, with upwards of probably 100 gigs of combined storage space.

> - what version(s) of samba you are using.  if using a version from cvs
> please include date and tag.

1.9.18p10 on most machines.  Will waiting a bit before jumping to the
2.0/2.1 tress, as 1.9.18 has been  so stable.

> 
> - what server(s), including the specification (OS, ram, hdd, network,
> rough estimate of mb/s throughput at peak load would be excellent if you
> can get it)

Most servers are Ppro/PII 200 or faster.  The current fastest samba server
is a Dell 2300 with PII 450, 256Megs rams, and  30-50 gigs of RAID space.
with dual 100Mbit ethercards in it. Currently its not being pushed too
hard.  During tests though it can saturate the 100Mbit lan connection.
> 
> - how many users and in what database (private/smbpasswd; LDAP; MYSQL) and
> how many simultaneous users.

tough to say, as we use a lot of "generic" users for public access
workstations, but there always 50-200 simultaneous connections running
(each user might get up to 15 drives).
> 
> - what sort of hosts connect to your servers.

Win95 mostly, some winNT. (though they can sometimes act strangely..)
> 

Dave J. Andruczyk
Instructional Support Associate
Department of Technology     
Buffalo State College