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

[Christopher Johnston]

I find that to be the best solution in a production environment..
considering a small NT server can be setup to handle PDC and WINS
resolutions.. pentium 133 with a  bit of ram could handle the task and
perform absolute functionality for what you need.


Christopher Johnston
System Analyst
Salomon Smith Barney
New York, NY
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Westkamper" <mjwestkamper at weiinc.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM" <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: Samba 2.0.7 as pdc and about 40 clients Win95/98 ? 2nd request


> 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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> >
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>
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