>I am wondering if anyone has tried running a server that will provide
>X-Windows via a Windows NT X-Windows client (eg. XWin32 or Excursion) as
>well as samba and basic web access to 100+ client Windows PCs.
you should explain why you want to provide those services through a win nt
box whereas they are linux native
or i misunderstood, and you want to know about a linux box that should
provide X services, samba and routing/web access for a bunch of 100 win nt
boxes ?
in the latter case, the hardawre depends on what level of service you want
to provide.
if web acces means only routing a reasonnable internet traffic, the
cpu/memory needs are very low (see "linux router projet, a one diskette
only system). at the opposite, if you want a fully featured firewaling
proxying caching server, you need more cpu, a lot of memory, and GB's of disk
i have samba boxes, and my experience is that samba really requires as
little cpu as memory. i'd say that a p200/96 MB could easily handle 100
clients at a time
about X the great question is "what will the users do ?" if you have CAD or
GIS applications i'm quite sure you could not set up a pc server to handle
100 users. if the users just do some vi'ing or xclock'ing then maybe a pc
server may be enough to handle that
so i'd conclude that at least 80% of your hardware is related to the graph
apps that you will provide through X. internet access and file sharing will
be bonuses.
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Thierry ITTY
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