So would you use MSDFS or some type of clutering with heartbeat to do what I'm trying to do? I cant ever have this system be unavaiable and would like to add to it if needed. Is anyone else doing something like this?
---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:21:22 +1100 >From: Andrew Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Samba] samba as a file server >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >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 >________________ >signature.asc (1k bytes) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
