I currently have samba 3.0.2 working with ldap as a filer sever Only. My question is how would I get samba working as file server that would handle 50k users. My main concern is that I want reliability. I would also like to be able to build horizantally if needed. I was first thing some type of cluster connecting to a SAN but I would rather do it like we do our webservices. We have x numer of small systems behind an alteon. Could I do something like this with samba as just a file server. Any recomendations on the setup? I also plan on looking into having samba doing some authentication for the different domains around our campus. Would you make our Samba file server a PDC Excuse my limited knoweledge on all this domain and winblows stuff. I still have a lot more reading to do.
On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:16, moof48@temple.edu wrote:> I currently have samba 3.0.2 working with ldap as a filer > sever Only. My question is how would I get samba working as > file server that would handle 50k users.50k concurrent connections, or 50k accounts and 100 connections? (it makes a bit of a difference ;-) Some of the recent work on Samba 3.0 will help on 50k connections, but others will talk about how to handle that kind of load...> My main concern is > that I want reliability. I would also like to be able to > build horizantally if needed. I was first thing some type > of cluster connecting to a SAN but I would rather do it like > we do our webservices. We have x numer of small systems > behind an alteon. Could I do something like this with samba > as just a file server. Any recomendations on the setup?Not for the same data - what you can do however is split up the data, and use MSDFS to handle the redirections.> I also plan on looking into having samba doing some > authentication for the different domains around our campus. > Would you make our Samba file server a PDC Excuse my > limited knoweledge on all this domain and winblows stuff. I > still have a lot more reading to do.You could make the Samba server a PDC - then the other domains can trust it. Samba can also trust other domains, or be part of a domain that trusts other domains. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20040221/e16799f6/attachment.bin
So would you use MSDFS or some type of clutering with heartbeat to do what I'm trying to do? I cant ever have this system be unavaiable and would like to add to it if needed. Is anyone else doing something like this? ---- Original message ---->Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:21:22 +1100 >From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> >Subject: Re: [Samba] samba as a file server >To: moof48@temple.edu >Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > >On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:16, moof48@temple.edu wrote: >> I currently have samba 3.0.2 working with ldap as a filer >> sever Only. My question is how would I get samba workingas>> file server that would handle 50k users. > >50k concurrent connections, or 50k accounts and 100connections? (it>makes a bit of a difference ;-) > >Some of the recent work on Samba 3.0 will help on 50kconnections, but>others will talk about how to handle that kind of load... > >> My main concern is >> that I want reliability. I would also like to be able to >> build horizantally if needed. I was first thing sometype>> of cluster connecting to a SAN but I would rather do itlike>> we do our webservices. We have x numer of small systems >> behind an alteon. Could I do something like this withsamba>> as just a file server. Any recomendations on the setup? > >Not for the same data - what you can do however is split upthe data,>and use MSDFS to handle the redirections. > >> I also plan on looking into having samba doing some >> authentication for the different domains around ourcampus.>> Would you make our Samba file server a PDC Excuse my >> limited knoweledge on all this domain and winblows stuff.I>> still have a lot more reading to do. > >You could make the Samba server a PDC - then the otherdomains can trust>it. Samba can also trust other domains, or be part of adomain that>trusts other domains. > >Andrew Bartlett > >-- >Andrew Bartlettabartlet@pcug.org.au>Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Teamabartlet@samba.org>Student Network Administrator, Hawker Collegeabartlet@hawkerc.net>http://samba.org http://build.samba.orghttp://hawkerc.net>________________ >signature.asc (1k bytes)