[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Hi
I am managing samba server in school.
Server is on VIA 800MHz processor with 80GB IDE hard drive.
there is no domain at the moment, just simple sharing, security share
and smbpasswd file.
I have 300 computers (each classroom has 20) with winxp sp2 auto logon
limited local account,
300 users (6 intake groups).
Passworded home directorys on Samba and Pupils have access to it by
clicking on icon which
fire up small VBS script which ask them for username and password and map
My Documents for them. Each classroom has a printer and on each
machine in classroom it is installed as local printing to port.
I am managing users accounts using my small sh and perl scripts.
Deploying or installing software on computers using perl (Win32::OLE)
scrips which copy my own version of installer (made using Nullsoft NSIS)
and fire it up using local administrator account.
I was asked to build the system based on samba which give each pupil at
least 10 GB home
space and will be save, easy (and secure?) and of course if it goes down
pupils will be able to have normal lessons.
I have to ask, Is it a good idea to buy 6 cheap VIA servers, each for a
year group,
configure sambas as a simple home sharing on each of them?
Or couple of Dual Opterons, 2GB mem, 3Ware, RID-5, Gbit network, Domain
with LDAP password backend?
Or maybe 6 of them and 7 as database only?
What hardware and samba configuration would be the best for my school?
BTW: Is it possible to use tbdedit in sh loop script which pick up
usernames and passwords from CSV/txt file?
Czesc,
Well, 10 GB for each of 300 students is pretty much - you may need 3000 GBs!
You may do some folder redirection, and you can also use poledit to
create a NTConfig.pol file which will limit their account to some size
(i.e., if their roamin profile is bigger that what you set, they will
not be able to log out, and will be prompted to remove some files).
I would also use ldapsam instead of tdbsam - thera good tools to manage
lots of users, like LAM - http://lam.sourceforge.net
With 300 users and 300 computers it makes together 600 users, I'm sure
one computer can handle this amount of authentication.
So, if you have 6 groups, that makes 50 users * 6 year groups = 300.
I would make a:
* PDC Samba + master OpenLDAP one one server, 2x big disk (RAID1) for
backups (I'd use rsync for that run nightly + some scripts that make
hardlinked backups to save space); no logons there if possible.
Also could be Unattended server (http://unattended.sf.net) for automated
Windows installations.
* BDC Samba + OpenLDAP slaves for each year group, even if you don't
have RAID1 on them (and something fails), everything should be fine if
you have some backup strategy.
You could also estimate if it's better to have a separate server for a
year group, or for names/surnames - like server 1: surnames A-F, server
2: surnames g-L etc.
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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
WPKG - deploy software with Samba
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