Is it reasonable to use samba on a virtual machine in this case?

Question

linux

There is a network on 50 computers. The file share is on Windows 7. There is a problem with the limit of simultaneous connections.
Since there is no iron for a separate server, the idea arose to transfer the ball to a virtual machine and raise samba on it.
Will this solve the concurrent connection limit problem?
Will samba handle this task as well as Windows did before the problem with the limit appeared?

Answer 1

Solve the problem with the limit.
Win7 on which you put the virtual machine will not make you any limit.
There will be no problems with resources either. According to the processor, samba will definitely not load much. Memory 512 is enough. Disk will work about the same. Ubuntu comes with hyper-v drivers out of the box. Putting it in virtualbox is also not a problem.
There is only one caveat with samba. It is somewhat more difficult to manage user rights in it. But also solved. A ball with all-for-all rights is placed in 5 minutes.

Answer 2

Taking into account the fact that in Ubuntu the limit on the number of connections for samba is a line in the config, and in Windows - +/- 100-1000 bucks for the cost of the license - it will decide.