[ILUG] Samba and Postfix

[Fergus Donohue]

Hi Phil,

Appendix B3 in the O'Reilly Samba book has the info you need on sizing -
one copy of it is here:

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

As for reliability no problems, if you have Win 2K clients you'll need
to go for 2.2. You probably know that Samba can't do BDC or trust
relationships, so wide area/inter dept stuff may be problematic.

Fetchmail should work fine with postfix - RH have setup instructions
much along the lines that you want:
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/RH-postfix-HOWTO/c241.html

All the best,

Fergus.

Philip Reynolds wrote:
> 
> I'm looking at setting up Samba in a business network. Now I've used samba
> before, but I'm wondering how well it scales with regards to clients, is
> there a rough figure I should probably not bother trying to set it up with?
> 
> How stable is it? Is it reliable enough to share files, printers etc. for
> a business in your opinion? (I'm going to be working with FreeBSD machines,
> although I presume the stability on FreeBSD will not be any worse than Linux,
> which is why I'm posting to ILUG for more exposure on the subject than BUGI,
> the BSD Mailing list)
> 
> I can't see clients stretching to more than 100, so I'm presuming there
> isn't a problem with this, but I would like to see where people have had
> pitfalls before, this changeover has to be kind of smooth, and Business
> as Usual has to be resumed pretty much asap.
> 
> I know I could search the web all day and get reports from people on reliability
> etc. however I wouldn't mind knowing the situation from people, who have
> probably have this kind of setup in large businesses. This setup is going
> into replace NT domains, and the two main reasons given were stability and
> cost. Now I need to know if stability can be guaranteed with samba (obviously
> not 100%), so that I don't need to run and fix it once a week (or even once
> a month!)
> 
> With regards mail, basically, if there's a catchall on the ISP (where we
> dial up to) so that *@blahblah.ie goes to user's POP account, and we collect
> the mail from the users pop account, I want a way to separate out the clients,
> using the postfix MTA. Is this possible with postfix?
> 
> Phil.
> 
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