Server 5, NT & File Sharing?

[altwegg]

In the Server Administrator's Guide, in the Appendix of Technical Specs and optimization (page A-2) it says:

"Turn off file sharing

Make sure operating system file sharing is turned off on the server computer."

Is this a requirement of Server 5 or a suggestion for optimization? The machine we want to run the as the server is an NT box, serving e-mail and 10 users for basic file sharing and saving. Will we see great degradation of Server 5 if it's not on its own dedicated (non-file-sharing) box?

Thanks,

Chris

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[Kurt Knippel]

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Originally posted by altwegg:

In the Server Administrator's Guide, in the Appendix of Technical Specs and optimization (page A-2) it says:

"Turn off file sharing

Make sure operating system file sharing is turned off on the server computer."

Is this a requirement of Server 5 or a suggestion for optimization? The machine we want to run the as the server is an NT box, serving e-mail and 10 users for basic file sharing and saving. Will we see great degradation of Server 5 if it's not on its own dedicated (non-file-sharing) box?

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Database servers should ALWAYS be run on a dedicated machine. Likewise e-mail servers should be run on dedicated machines.

Database servers do MASSIVE amounts of disk access and generally the more memory available to them the better.

E-mail servers do a fair amount of disk writing, but Exchange is a HUGE memory hog and will slowly but surely take all it can.

The recommendation for not allowing file sharing is so that no user (well intentioned or not) can gain direct access to any of the DB files. The only way to insure this is to not allow file access to the database server machine.

You will see performance degredation and security holes by running all of these on the same machine.

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