On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, John Griffiths wrote:
JG> In the next few days I'm going to be trying to replace an NT server that
JG> does domain control for a windows network, printing for the network, indows
JG> network file server, and allows dial up access to the network (and through
JG> it to the internet).
JG>
JG> My plan is to use samba on Debian and avoid the massive win2k licence cost
JG> (i'd need the 25 seat licence)
JG>
JG> My understanding is that I'd need Samba 2.20 to do all of this.
i would probably go with the latest stable samba instead unstable, i do pretty
much all the things you listed with latest stable samba and haven't had problem
yet, in production environment, stability usually has higher priority than
'features' [unless your boss insists on windows because he/she doesn't know any
better :)]
JG> a) build samba 2.2 from source?
JG> b) download 2.2 from unstable and use dpkg to install it? (probably having
to install the newer libc6? from my reading of the package list)
JG> c) upgrade the server to unstable and run a production box on the bleeding
edge?
if they let you, build entirely new machine for the linux, you can skip all the
gui friendly hardware - $10 svga card will do just fine if you don't mind
using a text console for configuration, as long it has fast drives, enough
memory and decent network card, you have nothing to worry about. :)
That way you can plug it beside the nt machine and run few tests - with the
latest stable packages, when there is low traffic in the company.
If you don't like the results, or want the features of samba 2.2, you can
always upgrade later to unstable ..
And when you have everything polished up to your satisfaction you just switch
servers and make the current nt machine backup server or make another
workstation out of it ..
You could also look in software/hardware raid if your company moves alot of
data around .. i run software raid5 with 3 1gb drives, just for the fun of it,
and even though it eats cpu little more, i hit the network throughput limit
before the cpu usage [due to raid/samba combo] reaches a 'unreasonable'
level. And it runs on p166 with 96mb ram, which is pretty much laughable
machine, considering the fact that 4x faster cpu and 2x as much ram can be
purchased under $100 in most hardware stores ;)
.. yeah i know .. i talk too much :)
Dingo.
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