[H-GEN] AN OFFBEAT QUESTION

[Sarah Hollings]

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Rick Phillips wrote:

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>Does anyone know if there is a limit to the number of Windows 2000 Pro
>clients which can be connected to a Win2000 Pro machine being used as a
>file server?  I have heard that 10 is the limit.
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>If 10 is the limit, is there a workaround - Samba for instance?
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>Regards,
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>Rick Phillips
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Last time I installed W2kAdvServer the default for number of clients 
connected was 5.  This is a licencing limit.  Presumably you buy so many 
licences, or so many licences come with your purchase of W2kAdvServer, 
and you can set the licencing service to limit by the number of seats or 
the number of connections, by changing this number from 5 to something 
else.  At U of Q we have a bulk purchase agreement, and people seem to 
think that means you can connect any number of boxen up to the server 
you want.  However if you don't set the licencing server to some large 
number (and I am not convinced that our licence allows us to do that) 
your Event log will fill up with red "X"'s.

Licensing??  Yukk!!  The only kind of licence I want to see is with GPL!

So yes, Samba would be a good workaround.  And in fact this workaround 
is something I have been working toward at work for sometime, but 
haven't got around to getting it working yet.  ;-}

http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb-howto.html   has a how to on getting 
your Active Directory replaced by Samba + LDAP, but getting it working 
is something else.  The aim is to replace the w2k server with such a set 
up completely but with fires burning all over, and software projects way 
over schedule even if there were 3 of me, I couldn't spare the time for 
this.

What you can do is simply set up Samba as a DC, and then have as many 
workstations as you want connect to it, maybe keeping your PDC W2k 
server (which is probably your usual honeypot  listening on 100+ MSRPC 
ports) on private subnet. There's a couple of dozen pages of HTML doco 
that comes with Samba 2.2+, and its explained fairly well there how to 
do this.  I understand that with Samba, you don't get Kerberos, so your 
Win2k boxes negotiate down to NTLM, so lower security in theory.

Sarah


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