On 20/08/12 10:59, Helmut Hullen wrote:
Hallo, steve,
Du meintest am 20.08.12:
This is a bit off thread, but could you specify any budget
hardware/minimum Samba4 DC Samba3 fileserver server requirements for
a college of 2000 students sharing 150 duel boot KDE/w7?
Where's the problem?
Such configurations need a machine with 2 GHz CPU, 4 GByte RAM and
(better) 2 or 4 NICs.
No machine with a "server" label.
Here in germany many schools (especially vocational schools) run Samba
3.x since many years for more than 1000 pupils and 100 to 200 clients.
And since many months with private smartphones too (connected via WLAN).
The samba load (for directories on the server) is most times small,
"squid" bears a much bigger load (for surfing).
The biggest samba problem seems to be where and how to store the user's
profile.
Viele Gruesse!
Helmut
Hi Helmut
Thanks for taking on the thread.
You give me encouragement in that the hardware requirements seem low. In
fact we have been using 2 old laptops running from 16GB usb pendrives as
our replicating DC's serving 10 client boxes no trouble at all. I see
the main problem (and probably cost too) in the file server and
redundancy. As the infrastructure is already in place (it's a 6 year old
installation with cables everywhere) we need to make a decision on how
to serve, store and backup files. We have a low budget and have looked
at raid, a DRDB cluster and just rsyncing out to a backup server at
regular intervals, switching cables and doing an IP takeover when the
main fileserver goes down.
Just thinking out loud.
Cheers,
Steve
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