On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:26:31PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > For a project at work, I need to simulate a large Windows domain (100's or > 1000's of member computers). Is there an easy way to do this with Samba, > short of creating 100's or 1000's of real or virtual machines? > > The Domain controller will be an actual Windows machine, but for my test I > need to have a very large number of computers added to that domain. I was > thinking perhaps a single Linux system running Samba could masquerade itself > as multiple Windows machines, but I don't know if that's really possible.
You would probably be best off asking this on a samba mailing list; they might have a stress-testing tool that they use themselves. If not, and your coding skills are up to it, use the samba source code to figure out the SMB protocol. It may be possible to write a minimal server that 'pretends' to be several different machines (I don't know the SMB protocol myself, but it may be a case of registering many times with the domain controller, or when asked "Which computer are you?" replying with different answers"). > > Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks. > > -Rob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/753304629.42272487.1372793191693.javamail.r...@ptd.net >
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