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Re: FW: [PLUG] SAMBA Server
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If you install the SWAT packages and install Webmin, you can get to SWAT
from webmin - plus webmin can manage many other things. www.webmin.com.
On Tue, 2002-12-24 at 11:41, Edward M. Corrado wrote:
> 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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