Mark, On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:29:32PM +1000, Mark Darvodelsky wrote: > We have an opportunity to put forward a Samba on Linux/390 solution for our > corporate file/print needs. The current environment is Novell Netware on 4 > X Intel servers, approx 750 desktops, approx 3 million files using about > 1TB disk.
How many Novell servers are you currently running? 4 X Intel is a four CPU x86 machine? > Our management is open to a Linux on mainframe solution but I > don't want to put up a technical solution if it is not robust and scalable. Samba is robust and scalable. But the question is, if your current permission concept/ model is portable. > We are running OS/390 on a 9672-R36 (G5), OSA-2 fast ethernet. It depends on the behaviour of your users and the total usage of your G5, it's capacity and the used storage. Also it's important to know, how many S/390 CPUs are available for Linux? > Is Samba going to work well in a real-life production environment? Any > thoughts or comments would be much appreciated. In my opinion it's possible. <advertisment> For better permission handling in Samba I suggest to use the upcoming SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 powerded by UnitedLinux 1. We have introduced a enhanced mapping of the MS Windows ACLs to Linux file system ACLs. ACLs on SuSE Linux ... are available for reiserfs, ext2, and ext3. </advertisment> -- Lars M|ller SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstra_e 15-19, 90429 N|rnberg, Germany
