On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Gregory Sloop <gregs at sloop.net> wrote:> I love the idea of a low-power high-performance appliance. A NAS will > work fine for storage, but it's not going to act as a DC etc. [At least > none that I'm aware of and would trust.] > > Even appliances sorta like this, that I've seen, are easily five times the > price. > > -Greg >Howcome no one has though of this before?? What is the "Samba equivalent", as the Alix 2D3 is for SOHO routers?? There's a market gap right there... Or maybe I am the one who thinks this way? Still, thanks for your advice! You are right, so far Optiplexes or similar pretty much fulfill all the requirementes I mentioned before: they are cheap, good looking, silent and with some care also pretty reliable. Best regards! George
On 2014-12-04 08:55, George wrote:> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Gregory Sloop <gregs at sloop.net> wrote: > >> I love the idea of a low-power high-performance appliance. A NAS will >> work fine for storage, but it's not going to act as a DC etc. [At least >> none that I'm aware of and would trust.] >> >> Even appliances sorta like this, that I've seen, are easily five times the >> price. > > Howcome no one has though of this before?? What is the "Samba equivalent", > as the Alix 2D3 is for SOHO routers?? There's a market gap right there...Tbh, you might get away with using PCEngines' APU boards (the successor to their Alix boards with a massively upgraded CPU) if individual machines don't need RAID (because everything is replicated anyway).> Or maybe I am the one who thinks this way?HP used to have their MicroServer line, but it didn't get updates in years, and I'm unaware of any serious competition ? the market is swamped with NAS with dubious firmware promises? Privately, I've built a few "Samba appliances" for home use, but compact PC cases with hotswap bays are absurdly expensive; even more if you want something like ECC on a passively cooled ITX board. And trying to get warranty (or even spare parts) after more than a year or two is downright impossible. At work we use Dell's PowerEdge R210 servers. Comparably cheap for rack servers (?if you fit your own HDDs/RAM), and low power consumption. So far I can't complain, although they're barely faster than Optiplexes, and harder to repair if you want to do it on your own instead of relying on Dell's support.> Still, thanks for your advice! You are right, so far Optiplexes or similar > pretty much fulfill all the requirementes I mentioned before: they are > cheap, good looking, silent and with some care also pretty reliable.New Optiplexes are rather cheap as well, and Dell's warranty service is quite good in my experience, even for $400 desktops. -- Mit freundlichen Gr??en, / Best Regards, Sven Schwedas Systemadministrator TAO Beratungs- und Management GmbH | Lendplatz 45 | A - 8020 Graz Mail/XMPP: sven.schwedas at tao.at | +43 (0)680 301 7167 http://software.tao.at -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 648 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20141204/2730b543/attachment.pgp>
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Sven Schwedas <sven.schwedas at tao.at> wrote:> Tbh, you might get away with using PCEngines' APU boards (the successor > to their Alix boards with a massively upgraded CPU) if individual > machines don't need RAID (because everything is replicated anyway). >I considered that, but what would you use for storage?? They have an mSATA port, but a decent mSSD costs twice as much as whole appliance! =( George
I've been thinking about this for 2 years. I held back waiting for samba 4 DC stability. It was a mistake to wait this long. It seems that AD DC functionality in samba for is really good -- and stable. I was thinking of using Intel NUC devices for this. I am running a school with 3 campuses and about 800 students and 200 facutly of a zotac box running samba 4.1.x. I would love to collaborate with anyone on the best stack to build this with. I'd also like to better understand all the python api's needed to do things like user management, ou creation, etc. .. samba-tool is not my favorite utility.. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 12:55 AM, George <jorgito1412 at gmail.com> wrote:> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Gregory Sloop <gregs at sloop.net> wrote: > > > I love the idea of a low-power high-performance appliance. A NAS will > > work fine for storage, but it's not going to act as a DC etc. [At least > > none that I'm aware of and would trust.] > > > > Even appliances sorta like this, that I've seen, are easily five times > the > > price. > > > > -Greg > > > > Howcome no one has though of this before?? What is the "Samba equivalent", > as the Alix 2D3 is for SOHO routers?? There's a market gap right there... > Or maybe I am the one who thinks this way? > > Still, thanks for your advice! You are right, so far Optiplexes or similar > pretty much fulfill all the requirementes I mentioned before: they are > cheap, good looking, silent and with some care also pretty reliable. > > Best regards! > > George > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >-- David Bear mobile: (602) 903-6476
Are you planing on offering and storage ? I just build node 804 (54$ case) it supports 12 hard hard drives. I am using semptron 3825 quad core 25 watts. asrock itx motherboard 16gb of ram. so far i have 16tb. There are extended itx motherboard with 14 sata ports and xeon.support. I know there is distro that provides community edition of samba and openchange and it has nice web interface for managing users and etc. I use remote admin tools from microsoft to maintain samba