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Hi Robin On 23/10/06, Robin Cornelius <robin.cornelius@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/23/06, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Are you just file serving to windows clients? or what. 8 Client PC's > is not a lot I have double that here and only have an AMD duron > running at 1.1GHz and only 128Mb ram (which is a bit low for me). This > does the file serving via samba, handles dovecot for IMAP mail, > incoming mail filtering and hosts internal company databases and > intranet. > > If you are serving windows then look for info/books on samba, there > are loads of free online resources and i think the samba guys make > stuff available on line or for purchase hardcopy as a book. > > Memory is important especially for databases etc having enough free > mem to avoid swapping is desirable and easily achieve able these days. > > No specific advantages to rack mounts, they might be a bit more > robust, and have dust filters etc but they do look the business and > give a professional image which is important to middle management who > don't understand the technical details :-) > > As this is a file server have you considered a data backup plan? > It is only running 8 windows clients and we were thinking of running the file server as: 80 gig software 250 gig x 2 in raid array and backing up to a separate server similar as above. Is that enough please? Thanks -- Rich http://www.cregy.co.uk Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Romans 12 v 1 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html