[H-GEN] Any limits on concurrent disk shares in Samba ?

[James C. McPherson]

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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:26:38 +1000 "Andrew Bennett" <a.bennett at library.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> Normally I just lurk on the lists but I am hoping that someone with more Samba 
> experience than I (not hard to do!) can give me some feedback.
> We are currently using Netware 5 on 2 servers to handle file/print services for approx 
> 1000 workstations accessible by the general public and students. This has served us 
> extremely well for a number of years. 
> If anyone out there is doing something similar but using Samba, would they care to 
> comment on their experiences using Samba to provide disk shares concurrently to a 
> large number of workstations (1000+) ?
> I am concerned that there might be limitations or problems providing this many 
> shares from one server, no matter how much RAM and CPU power we stick into it. 
> Would we be better setting up some kind of server farm to handle the connections ? 
> It has also been suggested to me that we try (gasp) NT or 2000 cluster with a stack 
> of disk. 
> I'd be very interested to hear peoples comments or other suggested solutions.

Hi Andrew - long time no see!

According to some resources I found, sizing should be per 

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/appb_03.html

and it's kinda similar to sizing for nfs.

Incidentally, there is a suncluster3 agent for HA-samba if you're interested.

cheers,
James C. McPherson
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