SME Server

[jjsaul]

Right i'm thinking of rearranging the old machines in the house...

does anyone know if Mitel SME Server will run on a Pentium 120Mhz PC with 48Mb RAM???

If not can anyone suggest another use for it....:D

It cost me a Nokia 6210 so not expensive but i'm not going to chuck it....

[shanno_2k]

i think thats a little to slow for sme



Geoff

[TheGurkha]

And I think that's a little low on RAM too.

[jjsaul]

ok cos the one im running it on at the moment is a P2 i think....

i shalnt attempt to put it on then lol....

thanks :)

[Saratoga]

Sorry I'm late in replying...

My SME Server runs on a P166 with 128mb Ram and a 4gb Hdd. It'll run. It may just be a little slow :(

[Saratoga]

Right i'm thinking of rearranging the old machines in the house...

does anyone know if Mitel SME Server will run on a Pentium 120Mhz PC with 48Mb RAM???

Right. This evening I had a poke round a freinds network and found he actually had 4 Pentium 100's each with 64mb RAM and 5gb HDDs that he was using with SMEServer 6.01 doing developmental work for his works' intranet.

He was also using one remotely as a wifi access point and bridge between his parents place and his. Quite an impressive setup :) They weren't fast but then with those speeds you don't expect it to be.

I've got a few pre-PII machines here now and at this rate they're going to be given away as they are too "old" to be used :(

[Saratoga]

Although on a side note I have found a good reason to have a "dedicated" file server rather than sharing it off another machine, such as my Mandrake one. This is the machine that I run all of my web and email stuff off, and runs 24/7. Has 2 100mb/s network cards in there (faster capacity on the Lan) and an 80gb Hdd. 65gb in one partition just for the "fileserver" aka Samba.

The drawback being that while I'm moving all the files that are scattered around the network into one place, sorting, binning, backing up etc etc (proceedure that should keep me out of mischeif for a while :D) the 4 machines on this operation have all but crawled to a halt. The drive, network and switch lights are flashing so fast they're more on than anything!
However, this ere lappy is on a wireless link and via multiple switches is out of the traffic :)

Multiple switches at this point is a good idea :)

SME Server is not able to support Samba in that respect but Mandrake can do both, so it's time to work what can and can't go wherever.

Not sure what's going to happen with future upgrades as they start to require faster/more/better resources...

Sorry to have bored you if you care sod all about computers. But if you want your own webserver on your adsl connection and you've got a router, then you could start by googling or failing that ask :)

[Rich_P]

Ever considered trying out Redhat?

[Saratoga]

Ever considered trying out Redhat?


I've not got that far yet :D :D :D

I've only had Mandrake as such a year, and only have this one machine I can readily try it on. I will possibly have another PII here some where to use, but I need to build it up first.

I need at least one machine on Windows for a specific messaging system that I have not yet got the Linux equivilent going and that has a rather large message base on it so can't put it on the Laptop (until that has a bigger hard drive!)

When I have more time and more money and more machines (emphasis on More) I will dig in deeper :)

Have you tried it and what do you think if so??

[TheGurkha]

I've used a lot of different distro's and keep coming back to Red hat. Currently using Red Hat 9.0. Don't know much adbout Fedora though, which is the new offering. They stopped doing 'regular' distro's a while back.

[Saratoga]

I've tried it in the past and it's gone pearshaped. This time I had some support and it went well.

Trashed 3 installations in a couple of months, but this install has been quite stable. Waiting for 10.2 before I upgrade any further, and perhaps when I have a bit more knowledge (and time, and donor PCs!) I'll try another distro :)

[Lightbulb]

This is all a bt over my head, does it have any similarity to a rebyte server? I have just built on with 460 Gb of RAID5 storage - it runs on Linux.

Seems very reliable so far, it even survived a power cut today and resynched it self automatically (off line for 60 minutes though!).

I built it out of an old Celeron 1.4GHz PC with 512Mb of RAM. Seems to offer extremely fast file opening (including streaming videos off of itover a 100MBs network) but writing to it is a bit slow (I suppose it has to distribute it around 4 HDDs?).

Lightbulb

[jjsaul]

lol all sounds rather good lightbulb...

my webserver is a P2 266mhz, dunno how much RAM (any thoughts saratoga :D ??? ) currently with 4gb hdd space (until i get round to swapping it over...)....

[Saratoga]

Hmm. Was that the big one you had from me? Or was that the swapout from the 300mhz? If bits were swapped over then it is either 32mb, 64mb, 256mb, 384mb

Take your pick :)

[jjsaul]

tis the big one.

it has been sitting in the webserver since i had it off you but havnt tried it yet in case i f*** up the installation of SME :p :D

will do it when i get round to it....it's currently near the bottom of a very very long list of things to do.....

[Saratoga]

Oh I suppose it's alright. You've sorted out the cooling issue, it doesn't sound like you've got the police helicopter sitting on your chimney and you're parents haven't complained.

No need to change it :)

WIth the replacement drive just back it all up.
Pull old drive
Fit new drive
Pop CD in
Load
If it fails, then you pop old drive back in and stuff....

One day, you'll be sorted :)

[Saratoga]

Priorities aren't important unless they're important or critical.

Oh and whose bright idea was this??

"The following errors occurred when this message was submitted:


Sorry! The administrator has specified that users can only post one message every 30 seconds."


Hmm :D :D :D :D

[Saratoga]

Probably to stop me mass posting of an evening before Bed! That's added about 5 minutes onto my posting time here, you know, Mods! Hmm

Suppose I'll have to just ignore it and get on with life :( :o :o :) :D

NN :D

[jjsaul]

Yes i sorted out the cooling issues, i added a case fan, replaced the one in the PSU and got a 2nd hand CPU fan from someone at school...

and i've even put the front back on the case :D

[jjsaul]

No need to change it :)

WIth the replacement drive just back it all up.
Pull old drive
Fit new drive
Pop CD in
Load
If it fails, then you pop old drive back in and stuff....

One day, you'll be sorted :)

One day.......probably the day when people are bobtailing disco3 's :D

Yeh, i will do that cos everything on it is backed up on my pc anyway....

[Cocky Lil Guy]

Bobtailing Disco 3's that'll be the day....i expect someone is trying it lol!!

[Saratoga]

One day.......probably the day when people are bobtailing disco3 's :D

Yeh, i will do that cos everything on it is backed up on my pc anyway....

Hmm

That's already been done you know :) :) :)

http://www.cluboffroad.co.uk/OptimafinalD1s.jpg

http://www.cluboffroad.co.uk/Bulldog02 8.JPG which came from
http://www.cluboffroad.co.uk/Bulldog02 pics.htm

Oh, and not forgetting

http://www.lrm.co.uk/archive/backissues/backissues2004/2004.12.html