On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:38:07AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote: > 1/ How much chance is there that a Samba installation will cause > problems? How stable is Samba?
It's possible - if you don't know how to set it up. You can destroy whole (network) neighborhoods with it ;) PDC wars, constant master re-elections, all kinds of havoc are possible. You would have to be an a-class muppet though. Samba has been around ages, is actively developed by a number of companies to provide the backbone of various NAS products, and even the forthcoming 3.0 (still in alpha, IIRC) is sufficiently stable that people are using it in production. > 2/ Is there anyone that will provide a commercial support contract > for Samba? Couldn't name companies ottomh, but they are definitely out there. > 3/ Are there any other solutions we can look at - like, perhaps, > an NFS client for Windows? Unix Services for Windows, but it's supposed to be a bit sucky. Samba is really the solution here though. Cheers, Alex.
