http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/qna/0,289202,sid39_gci880608,00.html is a pretty good (but short) article that covers some of your concerns regarding capacity.
I'm told that there are plenty of good interfaces which ease user administration, but I can't attest to this. I pretty much live on the command line. On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 09:55, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I am currently researching the possibility of slowly moving an existing > Novell network [with all Windows clients except mine :)] to something > Linux based. I have about 900 clients that would be slowly migrated if > this whole thing is feasible. The version of NetWare we are using now is > no longer "officially supported" from Novell, so it is becoming more and > more difficult to successfully make newer hardware work with the old > software. > > Can Samba handle this kind of client load? It would be mainly for basic > file/sharing and print spooling... > > The next question would be the user administration setup. I know in a > perfect world, LDAP would probably be best. After some preliminary > research, LDAP kind of makes my head spin... But Rome wasn't built in a > day either... > > I started googling some possibilities, but haven't come up with a whole > lot to point me in a direction. Is anyone using something similar, that > can point me in a few specific directions? > > Thanks for the help. > -- > :wq! > > Matthew Daubenspeck > http://www.oddprocess.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- steve ___________________________________________________ | | | it puts the lotion on its skin ... | | | | http://monticello.biz : tomorrow's tech today | | http://exitwound.org : hard to find | | http://exitwound.org/wiki : experimental | | http://buckowensfan.com : he's the man | --------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
