Smbpasswd and 20.000 users
Peter Samuelson
peter at cadcamlab.org
Sat Apr 15 18:37:56 GMT 2000
[werner maes]
> I have defined 20.000 users on a Samba-server. The samba-server takes
> care of domain logons.
[...]
> The server is a Pentium 166 MHz. If we would user a faster server,
> things would be better, but I still fear errors when many users log
> on at the same time since our worst case scenario is that 200 users
> log on simultaneously (we have 9 pc-rooms).
Try asking an NT guru for tips on tuning an NT Server for 200
simultaneous logins in a database of 20000 users, all from a single
Pentium 166 PDC. The immediate answer: "You must be mad. Upgrade
immediately." This is what I love about Samba and Unix: these kinds of
things are actually possible.
I think you've hit on the right solution -- database files instead of a
flat text file. I don't know if this has been implemented in Samba; I
don't see any evidence that it has. Alternatively, you can make use of
an external database. Samba-TNG seems to have some support for LDAP,
LDAP/Windows 2000, and MySQL as database backends. (Of those three, I
believe Samba-2.0.6 only supports LDAP.) One advantage to using a
client-server approach like these is that it makes it easy to share the
workload between two computers (the database server and the Samba
server).
Peter
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