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Re: FW: [PLUG] SAMBA Server
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As others have mentioned, you don't need a very powerful machine to use
Samba to share files to 10-15 users. While I serve a few less then that,
I have no problems using a 200 Mhz machine with 256 Mb RAM. The RAM is
probably more then enough. Of course, disk space depends on how many
files, but if you are going to be hitting the disks hard, you might want
to look into getting faster disks (but if you are not having a lot of
concurrent access, I don't think you will notice a huge difference - if
any).
Also, the Using Samba book that Bradley mentioned is great. I saw someone
mention SWAT, but I could never get it to work (although I have tried SWAT
in a long time so maybe it is easier/better now). However, editing the
Samba file is a rather simple process once you look at the Docs and the
sample config file.
Ed C.
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Molnar, Bradley wrote:
> 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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