Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server
Seur Bors wrote: As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would greatly appreciate them. Samba3 performs excellend nowadays. You should have no trouble at all serving 20 workers. In my setup (7.1-release/amd64/dual x2 3800 amd cpu/gigabit) smb generates only 3-5% cpu load when reading at 50MB/sec. I would also recommend running swat (zee /etc/inetd.conf), it can really help creating a nice and tailored smb.conf file for you via a webinterface. I believe that samba3 can even give you Active Directory features and Roaming Profiles, but I haven't looked into that. Samba as fileserver is enough for me. -- Frederique ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server
Samba3 performs excellend nowadays. You should have no trouble at all serving 20 workers. In my setup (7.1-release/amd64/dual x2 3800 amd cpu/gigabit) smb generates only 3-5% cpu load when reading at 50MB/sec. below 10% CPU when reading 8MB/s through fast ethernet link on PIII/500 I would also recommend running swat (zee /etc/inetd.conf), it can really help creating a nice and tailored smb.conf file for you via a webinterface. i would rather recommend man smb.conf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:42, Seur Bors seurb...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am recommending a FreeBSD solution to replace an old business file server. The old server is running Windows 2000 Professional, and the company has grown from the 5 employee setting to now two floors and approximately 15 - 20 people. They were starting to get connection errors to the Win2K machine, as I believe, without the Server version of the software, file sharing and maps are severely limited. Anyways, my question is thus: In setting up a FreeBSD machine and utilizing Samba to support standard file sharing, is there any caveats or issues that anyone perceives? I've done multiple FreeBSD installations, and utilize the Samba package to provide file sharing support in other small businesses, but have not had to consider 20 connections at once. The network connection is just a simple router to switch, all gigabit, and the system I'm recommending to use as a server also has dual gigabit network ports. As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would greatly appreciate them. Replacing Win2k (especially the Pro version) with FreeBSD on the same hardware will give you a boost right there. If you have newer or more capable hardware as well, you should be well ahead of the game. http://www.samba.org is your best bet for reading. Pick your country, then on the left side of the main page is a section called 'learn samba' - the 'Official HOWTO' and the 'By Example' links should provide all you need. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server
Seur Bors wrote: Greetings, I am recommending a FreeBSD solution to replace an old business file server. The old server is running Windows 2000 Professional, and the company has grown from the 5 employee setting to now two floors and approximately 15 - 20 people. They were starting to get connection errors to the Win2K machine, as I believe, without the Server version of the software, file sharing and maps are severely limited. Anyways, my question is thus: In setting up a FreeBSD machine and utilizing Samba to support standard file sharing, is there any caveats or issues that anyone perceives? I've done multiple FreeBSD installations, and utilize the Samba package to provide file sharing support in other small businesses, but have not had to consider 20 connections at once. The network connection is just a simple router to switch, all gigabit, and the system I'm recommending to use as a server also has dual gigabit network ports. As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would greatly appreciate them. Regards, Seur Bors Legate Commander Knights Of The Old Code ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Well there's a lot of info that would be needed to a well reasoned Yes, you can, but the short version is it shouldn't be an issue under normal office-like usage. Going from 5 to 20 connections in such a scenario is negligible. Samba system-agnostic tutorials are good sources of info, but best advice is probably to use info provided by their official documentation and mailing list. Also, I have fbsd systems running samba with 20+ connections under what I consider normal office environment with absolutely no issues except I can't figure out how to get XP to save persistent login password. -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:40:28 +0300, Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin wrote: Also, I have fbsd systems running samba with 20+ connections under what I consider normal office environment with absolutely no issues except I can't figure out how to get XP to save persistent login password. You mean it asks you for a password each and every time you access a network share? control panel - user accounts - your user - manage network passwords if list is empty just add an ip or dns with whatever usr/pass you desire. Nice, I've only been looking for that for about 3 years(obviously not a real high priority). Thanks for the tip. :)). No worries mate, I've also searched for it for like 3 days :P (around the clock). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server
On Apr 3, 2009, at 1:42 PM, Seur Bors wrote: Greetings, I am recommending a FreeBSD solution to replace an old business file server. The old server is running Windows 2000 Professional, and the company has grown from the 5 employee setting to now two floors and approximately 15 - 20 people. They were starting to get connection errors to the Win2K machine, as I believe, without the Server version of the software, file sharing and maps are severely limited. Anyways, my question is thus: In setting up a FreeBSD machine and utilizing Samba to support standard file sharing, is there any caveats or issues that anyone perceives? I've done multiple FreeBSD installations, and utilize the Samba package to provide file sharing support in other small businesses, but have not had to consider 20 connections at once. The network connection is just a simple router to switch, all gigabit, and the system I'm recommending to use as a server also has dual gigabit network ports. As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would greatly appreciate them. Regards, Seur Bors Legate Commander Knights Of The Old Code The latest samba port if very robust. You should find this trivial to complete. I encourage you to go with new hardware if possible. Cheers, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, Daemon News Columnist, BSD Magazine 6 Alpine Court Medford, NY 11763 http://www.olivent.com http://www.daemonnews.org http://www.bsdmag.org skype: mikel.king t: 631.627.3055 m: 646.554.3660 +--+ Experimenting w/ Twitter follow me if you dare... http://twitter.com/mikelking +--+ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server
Seur Bors пишет: As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would greatly appreciate them. You can try FreeNAS. It has standard file sharing with samba managed through web-interface and it also has many more nice features. Oh yeah, and it's FreeBSD. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Michael Lednev rea...@reaper.yaroslavl.ruwrote: Seur Bors пишет: As well, if anyone has any web-links to recommended reading, I would greatly appreciate them. You can try FreeNAS. It has standard file sharing with samba managed through web-interface and it also has many more nice features. Oh yeah, and it's FreeBSD. :) Good points; And a previous employer was running samba on a multi-site VPN school network with 600 employees.. with a pretty high load. Biggest thing I found when I started to look into it is the fact that each client connection to the server yielded yet another PID to have the CPU work under. So a central server with 600 employees (potentially) hitting it at once would bring the system load up very fast. I saw system loads of 200-300 by use of nagios. So it would be a wonderful solution; it may peg the system load higher than one would initially expect, depending on what the fileserver actually serves (CAD files, video rendering, Access MDB files, etc) as a potential bottleneck. I'd pick 10k RPM drives...if you're using more complex files like the ones mentioned above. A fast spindle speed will send the file down the wire and releive system load (as it is logically going through my head). I've seen 10k SATA drives, but the cooling is important. FreeNAS might be a good choice, because it's a stripped down version. But I'd be concerned of system load higher than anything else for the current situation, and expansion needs later. Enjoy your weekends! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server
Samba to support standard file sharing, is there any caveats or issues that anyone perceives? I've done multiple FreeBSD installations, and if you use windoze XP or newer and some multiuser programs like accounting etc. you will have to use veto oplock files man smb.conf for details ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as a Business Server
The latest samba port if very robust. You should find this trivial to complete. I encourage you to go with new hardware if possible. i use Pentium III 500Mhz, 384 MB ram as file serwer (samba) for 12 clients, and mail serwer, VoIP PBX and few less important things. works quick without problems. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
