A bit of general advice needed please people. An anonymous client of mine has identified a need to access Unix filesystems from Windows PCs.
We, of course suggested Samba as the perfect solution. Unfortunately this client has all of its Unix and networking support outsourced and this outsource company has pursed its lips and shaken its head at this suggestion. They are claiming that it is unsupported and not something they can recommend for critical production systems. They are, instead, recommending that developers use ftp or scp to transfer files from Unix to Windows. Now we could overrule them and force them to install Samba, but the danger with this is that they can then blame Samba for any network problems we have and this can potentially undermine any support that we get from them. So, a few questions: 1/ How much chance is there that a Samba installation will cause problems? How stable is Samba? 2/ Is there anyone that will provide a commercial support contract for Samba? 3/ Are there any other solutions we can look at - like, perhaps, an NFS client for Windows? Any advice appreciated. Dave... -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "Let me see you make decisions, without your television" - Depeche Mode (Stripped)
