> We have just started to roll out Thinstation thin-clients that are > connecting to Win TSRV servers. What is being planned is 1 Terminal > Server per location. This will significantly reduce the adminstrative > nightmare on multiple Windows boxes and centralize it. However, this > is where I start to feel that I am having too many servers per > location, seeing that the windows server could do what the Samba > server is doing, I am in debate about moving back to windows (I have > will need to licenses and boxes there anyhows)
No! Bad! Having the same box to DC/WINS/DNS/etc... as runs user apps is a disaster (trust me, I've dismantled & refactored the networks of shops that tried to put everything on one windows machine). > One other option is just ot house a ginormous WIN-TSRV at the central That would be my choice. > location. However, I am afraid of issues with printing back to the > remote locations (pushing large files through the 1/2 T-1 to print). Verses all the filesystem and other support (profiles, WINS, DNS, LDAP, etc...) traffic? Use QoS to relagte the print traffic to second-class status and/or tunnell the print traffic through a compressor (postscript is wonderfully compressible, and some printers support compression themselves). > Another option is to remove the samba servers from the remote > location, and just have a samba PDC with authenticating windows tsrv > machines. - I dont like this option for some reason Is the TS actually useful without a connection to the central servers (database, middleware, etc...)? Do you still have stand-alone workstations, laptops, etc..? The TS probably caches the profile/login anyway so it might remain usable for a time even if the circuit it down. > I really dont want to move away from the SAMBA backend, but at the > same time dont want to stay with it just because I 'like it' and I > 'want to'. So I am looking for discussion/arguements as to why I > should stay with the Samba server and a win-tsrv server, as opposed to > just moving to a MS backend. Whatever your have - samba or not - don't pile it all on one machine, and certainly not on a terminal server running user apps. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
