On Monday 15 October 2007 16:18, Tom wrote: Hi Tomasz and All, I think Tom directed us into right direction, i am also eager to know that can wpkg works with HTTP, because samba becomes is really too slow for this Wonderfull software package. I really want to work for it. Can u please confirm how comlex it can be?, and what is the initial point to start with all this. Thanks and best regards Arun Gupta > Hi, > > > Can anyone confirm me that, is there any other alternative also present > > other then SAMBA/Active Directory on Server side for WPKG. > > That's a good question and I have no answers ;) That's why I'm bouncing > on it and ask the same question as Arun Gupta. > > I was wondering if wpkg could handle HTTP requests to get packages > files. It seems to me it would be a clever solution than SMB but I don't > know if it's easy to implement. I imagine that SMB choice was a simple > choice at the beginning to start the project because it's windows stuff > but now wpkg grows and his purposes also ;) > > Why am I telling this? Because, what happens to a Samba Server (or MS© > ADS©) if for example, 500 clients ask theirs new firefox version ? As > everybody knows, SMB/CIFS is a bit of pain to load balance (if anybody > knows how, tell me :) and it will probably (over)load at lot. HTTP, is > very easy to loadbalance (wpkg) load/access/cnx with a farm of > webservers that's why I think it could be a new feature for big wpkg > installation. What do you think ? Is HTTP implementation possible ? > > Maybe, I'm wrong, because I'm telling about things I never saw and have > never happened now. Yes, we're now using wpkg for a little sample of > ours Windows© computers (~ 40 PCs) but we want to expand it to the whole > park (1500 PCs). So, that's my first question here, can someone tell us > his experience about his wpkg architecture for at least 1000 computers ? > > To finish, I would like to thanks Tomasz and all people here for this > great and very clear software : « Thank You ! » > > A+ > Thomas > > wpkg-users mailing list wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users |