Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:55:35AM -0500, 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 whol

Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-07 Thread nate
Mark Roach said: > Hi, Nate. Not quite sure if this is what you mean, but I am certainly able > (on my samba server with ext3+acls and winbind) to > > setfacl -m g:"Domain\\Domain Users":rwx filename > > or use the nt file permissions dialog. Maybe I am misunderstanding you > though. thats acls,

Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-07 Thread Mark Roach
On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 12:41, nate wrote: [...] > Your biggest problem may be file permissions. Neither samba nor > samba-tng(as far as I know) support Domain group-based file permissions, > everything is based on unix groups/users. Hi, Nate. Not quite sure if this is what you mean, but I am certa

Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-07 Thread nate
Matthew Daubenspeck said: > Can Samba handle this kind of client load? It would be mainly for basic > file/sharing and print spooling... samba can handle more SMB traffic then most anything availble. The limitations would be the underlying OS. I think Linux is middle to lower end of the pack when

Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-07 Thread Carla Schroder
On Friday 07 March 2003 7:55 am, 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 i

Re: Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-07 Thread Stephen Hargrove
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

Small/Medium scale SAMBA

2003-03-07 Thread Matthew Daubenspeck
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 "of