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Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA



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
> 
> 
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