Hi Everyone!!!
Just as a positive feedback to the SME-Team:
At a large public school in Zürich, Switzerland, a SME Server is still doing it's job:
- File-Server for 4 Windows 2000 PCs
- Print-Server for 4 Windows 2000 PCs, providing a HP Plotter and a Laserjet 2100TN
- Windows Domain (PDC-Mode)
As the school is large (fiber inhouse from one wing to another, as distance too long!) and from the 1980s, not all rooms are wired yet. This setup has NO internet access, and serves the purpose of teaching "Geometry" to students in practical outings and analysing the gathered data. "Geometry" means measuring the ground for building roads / buildings / official plot registry / renovations / whatever.
Even though the students copy loads of stuff in and out using USB sticks, this system is still running stable. The only prank played in all those years was a student unplugged the LAN cable inside the cover of the LaserJet, keeping the look it was still plugged in...
And it's still running in BETA!!! Any other questions about stability of SME???
OK, definitively NO hacking attempts from in or out.
But ClamAV that old - and all those USB sticks, and weekly checks...
4 Reboots (2 actually planned downtime due to electrical wiring being done...), the other two due to botched plot jobs.
(Plotter hooked up via Par-Port).
The server is being retired this summer, after so many years of stable performance - but the state mandates the move to Windows AD.
Theirs not to question why, even though it's in part my taxpayer money...
Still amazing - all on a no name server with P4 CPU, 2 SATA disks mirrored with SME, and 512 MB RAM.
As SME8-B6 seems just as stable, I did move one client to SME8 after digesting the fact...
My feedback on that is on the appropriate SME8 forum.
Kudos to the SME Team for the stable, reliable server we all know as SME-Server, e-smith - a rose by any other name!
Andy
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