Samba 2.0.7 as pdc and about 40 clients Win95/98 ? 2nd request

[Mike Westkamper]

Klaus;

I am running SAMBA 2.0.6 on an Intel P5/90 with 64kb memory. I have 30+
users (95/98/Nt4/Win2k/OS2/Linux), 170gb SCSI, 100mb network. I am also
using IP chains on this box and have had no incidence of slowdown. The
system runs peak at 55% during long builds.

The smb.conf is a mess given all the various users. I would start by using
a NT box as the PDC and let Linux/SAMBA do everything else.

Mike

Gerald Carter wrote:

> > Klaus Zieger wrote:
> >
> > Has anybody experience with Samba (2.0.7.) set up on a fast server (2
> > CPU's and 512 MB RAM, 100Mbit/s network) as primary domain controller
> > for Win9x clients. Is the performance still acceptable if there are
> > about 45 clients (45 PC's and a maximum of 90 users, on the average
> > there are about 30 logons but there frequent logoffs and logons
> > simultaneously) ?
> > I would be most grateful if anybody could send me an example of his
> > smb.conf file.
> > So far I have managed successfully to build up a small network with 3
> > clients (1 Samba PDC, 3 Win9x clients) and it works just fine. I'm
> > battlehardenend as far as WIN NT4.0 is concerned and can take quite
> > some frustration - as you can probably imagine !!
> > A Linux-Newcomer
> > Klaus Zieger / Nuremberg in Germany
> > k.zieger at odn.de
> >
>
> I've run 2.0.6 of a Sun E3000 (4x250Mhz) with 1.5Gb RAM.  Included
> 5 100Mb ports and 250Gb of disk space.  Number of clients supports
> was ~700.
>
> What more information do you need regarding smb.conf?  Mine was
> fairly intricate and hand crafted so it would probably
> not be a good example.
>
> Cheers,
> jerry
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