Hi All, I have a problem with a growing network. I inherited the network at about 200 machines and it's now reached 300 at which point the cracks are starting to show. I have no budget to speak of but need to up the bandwitdh so I'm looking at sticking an extra Gigabit NIC into my PDC and splitting the network into two subnets. I have two kinds of data, static and dynamic. Static files are put there by higher rights users (teachers) to be accessed read only by pupils. Dynamic data includes profiles and users work.
After reading the manuals and searching the web I have a couple of questions: 1) I assume that as the NICs are on the same server (PDC & WINS) the WINS server part of Samba will store both NIC IPs in the wins.dat file and that it'll answer WINS queries from both subnet without a problem. Dynamic data will be stored on the PDC so I assume this will be easy. Am I on safe ground here? 2) I plan to have a server on each subnet that will hold the static data and act as BDCs relieving the load on the PDC. Effectively, the content will be identical but as staff update data on one, is there a way of binding the server shares together so one updates the other. I know you can bind two drives on a unix box together with mount --bind. Has anyone tried binding two samba shares together? Is it easier to script an rsync -u . 3) Finally, I need to run login scripts based on group membership but with static data shares mounted on a different server depending on the subnet you're on. Any tips on stacking login scripts? Can samba do this. Any hints and tips appreciated. I have limited time to do this and set up three web servers with limited time for testing but that's life. Cheers, Jools -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
