[K12OSN] Planning for Next Year

[Mark Cockrell]

Hello all,
    I'm putting together my summer to-do list and I plan to do some 
serious re-organization of my current server setup.  I'm hoping some of 
those here more experience with Linux can help me out.  I have a Windows 
NT domain with approximately 700 users on about 400 PCs.  I want to move 
my PDC to a Samba/LDAP server and let my Win 2K/XP machines authenticate 
to that.  I have a server I've been using as my K12LTSP server.  It's a 
one-NIC setup supporting about 50 clients, though rarely more than 20 at 
any one time.  It's a dual Xeon 2.4GHz with 4GB RAM and an SATA RAID 
array for storage.  My question is this:  Could this machine serve has 
both my K12LTSP server AND my Samba/LDAP server?  Could this hardware 
handle the user authentication and the accompanying file management and 
still be an effective thin-client server?  Our high school students in 
particular make extensive use of the network storage and frequently move 
large files across the network.  What would be the most likely 
bottleneck here?  Is this too much to ask of a single server?  Are my 
specs. too meager?  Would I be able to achieve seamless integration of 
Windows and Linux logons with this setup?  Would I have to share the 
user directory via both Samba and NFS to do so?  Any wisdom would be 
appreciated.

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C-ya,
Mark
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