On Tue, 2018-05-29 at 19:58 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:> > So I take it from the above, that whilst it isn't a good idea to use a > DC as a fileserver if you have the resources, it will work for a > small office set up.Exactly.> I will use the information above to update the wiki and I feel that I > should point out that I didn't start this thread.Thanks for all your efforts to help and advocate for our users Rowland, it is much appreciated. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Catalyst IT http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba
Mandi! Andrew Bartlett via samba In chel di` si favelave...> > So I take it from the above, that whilst it isn't a good idea to use a > > DC as a fileserver if you have the resources, it will work for a > > small office set up. > Exactly.I add a magic word. 'Virtualization'. ;-) Even on smaller setup, instead of installing samba directly on bare metal could be useful and not too much complicated installing a virtualization system (Proxmox?) and fire up two VM, one as DC and one as DM. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà , 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) marco.gaiarin(at)lanostrafamiglia.it t +39-0434-842711 f +39-0434-842797 Dona il 5 PER MILLE a LA NOSTRA FAMIGLIA! http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/index.php/it/sostienici/5x1000 (cf 00307430132, categoria ONLUS oppure RICERCA SANITARIA)
On Wed, 30 May 2018 09:57:12 +0200 Marco Gaiarin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> Mandi! Andrew Bartlett via samba > In chel di` si favelave... > > > > So I take it from the above, that whilst it isn't a good idea to > > > use a DC as a fileserver if you have the resources, it will work > > > for a small office set up. > > Exactly. > > I add a magic word. 'Virtualization'. ;-) > > Even on smaller setup, instead of installing samba directly on bare > metal could be useful and not too much complicated installing a > virtualization system (Proxmox?) and fire up two VM, one as DC and one > as DM. >Lets be honest here, if you are in a small office and the computer you are planning to install Samba as a DC on, is capable of also running some form of VM with a fileserver in it, then it is also probably capable of just running the DC as a fileserver. Less to setup and maintain. Rowland