-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 23 July 2003 00:14, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: > I have been researching Samba in efforts to slowly replace our current > Novell Netware servers. Is anyone currently using Gentoo in > such a production environment serving roughly 1000 users? > > I usually use Debian for such a server, but would like to hear thoughts > and experiences for those currently using Gentoo.
In my experience, Samba is not a good choice for anything resembling heavy load, mostly due to the resources required to simulate filesystem features that are native to Windows. I've had serious load and response-time problems in a 20-user setting with a few 100 GB of data shared through samba, most of these came from the continous directory rescanning Samba need to do in order to provide file-change notification to connected clients. There's also been a lot of issues with filenames containing non-us characters, and in general there's been more problems with this than it was worth. We moved file services to Windows 2k, and they now run properly for our 90% Windows LAN. There may be filesystems that provides file-change notification, and it might very well be possible to configure Samba to handle all character sets as transparently as Windows, but IMO Windows is way better suited for sharing out files to windows clients than Samba. Now, if you don't have windows clients, it's another story... But as you chose to look at Samba I'd guess your users are mainly windows. - --Erik -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/HcwIds9m9uhAobARAsDNAJ9RpKeF4ZrjIt+1n5clABzB0OlRzACfRHxk NeUByMSCBrfPvDpbDdL0wII= =m3TQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
