On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello > > I am on the way to setup a brand new Samba server with OpenLDAP backend > > I am very interrested by feedback of "real world" samba admins running it > with FreeBSD > or Linux , my boss push hardly to use Linux but I would much prefer FreeBSD > so good arguments are welcome ( my boss is a smart guy , if I give enough > litterature that says FreeBSD is better, he will be OK ) > > More seriously I'm also searching for eventuals benchmarks that compare > those two configurations. > > Thanks a lot. > > Hi This is probably not a reliable or objective comparison, but I get much better performance at home b/w a fbsd7/windows vista client and a fbsd6.2 server (freenas) over a 11g wireless network than in the office b/w a windows xp client and an ubuntu 8.04 server over a 100 Mbps ethernet network (even if I am the only person using the server). my server at home runs on an assembled 1.8 GHz athlon xp system with 512 MB RAM. The one in the office is a Wipro NetPower server with a 3 GHz Pentium 4 and 2 GB RAM. both servers run the default samba versions they came with, and both clients are kept upto date it could possibly be a problem with the default ubuntu server configuration, but i have not checked it out yet -- Gautham Ganapathy http://lisphacker.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"