Hello, ORIGINAL QUESTION: Our university has a study in progress looking at using SAMBA to provide file/print sharing as an enterprise-wide solution.
Does anyone know of an entity that uses SAMBA to support up to or more than 10 site locations, over 125 buildings, and supporting over 5000 workstations? SUMMARY: We are currently primarily using Novell NetWare for file/print sharing. We decided to implement a hybrid solution using the best of Novell and Open Source (e.g., Samba). RESPONSES: ---------------------------------------- >From Tony Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have done a corporate wide rollout using samba. We only needed basic functionality and did not start down the slippery slope of providing a full windows infrastructure. We used Samba to provide WINS services, and file/printer shares. As it was a Unix based environment, we wanted to use the users NIS passwords to provide authentication (didn't want to have to set up a new password scheme; hard enough keeping what we had in sync). We did not use domains and PDC's. All depends on the level of service you need to provide. We kept things as simple as possible to keep the support costs to a minimum. Once you start putting in a domain structure, the support and admin costs can balloon out very quickly if you have a large mobile user base. ---------------------------------------- >From Peter Polkinghorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: In my previous job at Brunel University, we used Samba to support users over 4 sites with around 4,000 desktops. This was using Samba to provide File services only, as we used Windows LPR support and NISgina for authentication. I wrote a paper on this in 1999 - see: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~peter/samba/ and in case the University ever delete my home directory (with some extra bits): http://www.btinternet.com/~p.polkinghorne/samba/index.html In summary we supplied both applications and home directories using Sun servers (Ultra1s in the main) to WindowsNT clients. A typical Sun was supporting upto 200 clients with the same sort of load as that number of NFS clients (as we previously used SunNFS on Windows 3.11). ---------------------------------------- -- Regards, /~\ The ASCII Richard Jackson \ / Ribbon Campaign Computer Systems Engineer, X Against HTML Information Technology Unit, Technology Systems Division / \ Email! Enterprise Servers and Operations Department George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
