[WBEL-users] Samba 3.0.2a on WBEL

[Karl-König Königsson]

Karl-König Königsson wrote:
> Simone wrote:
> 
>> My (poor?) hardware is an ECS-K7VTA3 (Promise 20265 onboard so I can 
>> have just 1 hd on every ide port) Motherboard, Duron 1200Mhz, 
>> 512MB/266Mhz Ram, 2 hard disks 10Gb Software RAID1 for OS, and 2X 
>> 200Gb HD for storage Software Raid (basically a fileserver).
>> People that will connect to the server is around 50, not usually 
>> working all at the same time, just editing office2000 docs, and some 
>> video file.
>> Since it's my first important server, and it's going to host the past 
>> 5 years work, I would like to have any opinion on Hardware (should I 
>> go for a better/faster CPU, or a different Mob, or a W3C pci raid 
>> card??) and any suggestion on performance or security improvements. 
>> The server is going to be backup on a tape device.
> 
> 
> Sounds similar in principle to what I have here, but for the software RAID.

Perhaps I was not clear enough, amidst the ramblings... Sounds like it 
will work well, at least to me. The sort of thing you want to accomplish 
should not put too much of a strain on the hardware, and certainly not 
the processor.

As for the Mobo, I can't tell. It should be stable, that is the only 
requirement, and I expect that you have done you homework and read all 
the reviews on Tom's Hardware and such-like.

Security should not be a major concern either, I recon, since you are 
all inside I expect. I you, on the other hand, plan to have this machine 
on the public internet, then you need to do some fortifying. Good 
reading could be O'Reilly's "Building Secure Servers with Linux" or 
"Linux Security Cookbook". (The latter I have and like, the former 
sounded like a good title I stumbled over when looking on Oreilly's web 
site but I hae yet to read it)

Many words...


	Karl-Koenig Koenigsson


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