On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I currently have samba 3.0.2 working with ldap as a filer > sever Only. My question is how would I get samba working as > file server that would handle 50k users.
50k concurrent connections, or 50k accounts and 100 connections? (it makes a bit of a difference ;-) Some of the recent work on Samba 3.0 will help on 50k connections, but others will talk about how to handle that kind of load... > My main concern is > that I want reliability. I would also like to be able to > build horizantally if needed. I was first thing some type > of cluster connecting to a SAN but I would rather do it like > we do our webservices. We have x numer of small systems > behind an alteon. Could I do something like this with samba > as just a file server. Any recomendations on the setup? Not for the same data - what you can do however is split up the data, and use MSDFS to handle the redirections. > I also plan on looking into having samba doing some > authentication for the different domains around our campus. > Would you make our Samba file server a PDC Excuse my > limited knoweledge on all this domain and winblows stuff. I > still have a lot more reading to do. You could make the Samba server a PDC - then the other domains can trust it. Samba can also trust other domains, or be part of a domain that trusts other domains. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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