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I have actually found that a P133 w/ 40 MB ram is more than enough to
serve to about 10-15 users, so, anything higher than that would be good
(especially if they are reading/writing a lot of data). However, the
bios limitation on hard drive size is kind of a non-issue. As long as
you boot off of a drive that the bios can use, you can throw a huge
drive inside, as long as the kernel supports it. For instance, this
same P133 has a 4.3 GB drive to boot off of. It also has a 40 GB ide
for storage (although the bios only says it is 8.33 GB. It also has a
17 GB SCSI drive.
The machine can easily serve about 8-9 GB /hour (and this has been
tested several times).
As for docs, check out the Using Samba by O'reilly
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/
that is how I got mine set up.
-b
-----Original Message-----
From: eric@lucii.org
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: 12/24/02 09:40
Subject: Re: [PLUG] SAMBA Server
Gary:
I'd suggest you check out the following from Mitel:
http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/5.1/hardware.html
This lists 4 categories that they have established for the Mitel SME
Server (formerly e-smith Server.) I've used e-smith for very light
loads (5 or less users) very succesfully. I'm working on expanding the
userbase to larger systems. Mitel claims hundreds of users is possible
(given sufficient hardware) and I have NO reason to doubt them.
Since you say "medium traffic load" I'd assume that a 300 MHz P2 with
128 Meg Ram would handle that nicely. Anything older and you'd likely
have trouble with out of date hardware (old BIOS, small drives, etc.)
I've used a 200 MHz Pentium MMX with 96 Meg of RAM and a 5.4 Gig IDE
drive and have had no difficulty. Your disk space mileage will vary
depending on the storage requirements of your users.
I presume you are using Linux? What distro do you have in mind? I ask
because I found the e-smith server to be stone simple to install and
use. No SAMBA HOWTO's necessary. E-smith is based on Red-Hat.
HTH. Good luck.
Eric
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 08:44:07AM -0500, Weissman, Gary wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to setup a SAMBA file/print server for about 10 computers
running
> everything from Windows 98 (mostly) to Windows XP. Assuming a medium
> traffic load on the server, what would anyone suggest as minimum specs
for a
> machine? Also, any other suggested documentation apart from the HOWTO
on
> the SAMBA site?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Gary
>
> --
> Gary Weissman
> Project Coordinator
> Teaming for Technology
> United Way of Southeastern Pennsylania
> 215-665-2566
> garyw@uwsepa.org
>
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