Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-22 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Short answer: A lot of connections, not really. > >Long answer: Well, TCP/IP only allows for something like 65535 >concurrent connections... .. per remote host. Mike. -- Netu, v qba'g yvxr gur cynvagrkg :) -- To UNSUBS

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
"Ken Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How many concurrent connections would be possible on a file server running > Debian? Is it a limited number? Short answer: A lot of connections, not really. Long answer: Well, TCP/IP only allows for something like 65535 concurrent connections... > Als

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread glenn
Sounds like you won't be using the server for much more than samba, which once configured should run solid ad infinitum. I think gnome-setup-tools has simple interface to samba. However (almost) everything is controlled by one file in practicse, (/etc/samba/smb.conf) and configurations can be made

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Kent West
Ken Hansen wrote: I work in a call center, and support about 350 workstations, all running various versions of Windows. We are using a file server that has Win98. I am working on a proposal to change to a Linux file server. At this point, the company standard is Windows. We have one Red Hat pri

RE: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Ken Hansen
ister the system. Ken -Original Message- From: Ken Gilmour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2004 10:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Concurrent connections on file server Hi (other) Ken On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 16:37, Ken Hansen wrote: > I'm new to Linux, and

Re: Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Ken Gilmour
Hi (other) Ken On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 16:37, Ken Hansen wrote: > I'm new to Linux, and don't know that I would be able to administer > this system from the command line at this point. My hope is to get a > Linux file server running to show it's stability and reliability, and > move toward more Lin

Concurrent connections on file server

2004-03-21 Thread Ken Hansen
I work in a call center, and support about 350 workstations, all running various versions of Windows. We are using a file server that has Win98. I am working on a proposal to change to a Linux file server. At this point, the company standard is Windows. We have one Red Hat print server, and