I have 10 windows boxes and 7 unix boxes on a LAN used by students. I want them each to be able to use any of the clients, but have some space of their own somewhere on the system. The disks I have on the unix boxes just aren't enough, so I want to let them use the D drives of the windows boxes and use sharity to mount them. But a problem arises if more than 10 clients attempt to share the same disk, because these windows boxes are just using w2k pro. Two approaches occur to me:
1) Have the 7 unix boxes mount all 10 of the shared drives all the time, but have the windows boxes mount them dynamically when each user logs on, and unmount them when the user logs off. Since I'm putting two users on each disk, this would guarantee that each disk is never accessed by more than 9 clients, only two of which would actually be doing anything. I know how to do this, but I worry that there may be a performance problem. Anyone have a feeling about whether this would bog down the network? There would always be at least 70 sharings, maximum 80 sharings, never more than 17 actually doing anything. Realistically, I think it would be rare that more than one sharing was really being used at a time, but then there would be a few times just after class when 10 students would charge in and start downloading 5 gigs worth of data each. 2) Have all the clients mount dynamically, then the max # of sharings would be 17 for the entire net, which seems reasonable. This sounds better, but I don't know how to do it. Is there a way to use suid or something to have a system mount a volume when a user logs on and then unmount it when the user logs off? (No need to give a long explanation, just give me a clue so I can go google the answer.) This is one of those rare things that is easy on windows but I don't know whether it can be done at all on unix. Any other approaches occur to anyone? Well, I guess we could always just buy some more big disks, but we have a budget problem at the moment. thanks, TDB _______________________________________________ Sharity-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe see http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/sharity-talk
