Dave Cross wrote: > So, a few questions: > > 1/ How much chance is there that a Samba installation will cause > problems? How stable is Samba?
Samba is quite stable, but well, it has the same problems than NetBIOS : it's bandwidth consuming (designed for LANs). And if the machines are open on the Outside, you must be very careful about security, access control and software updates. > 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? There are NFS clients for Windows. Alternatives : WebDAV ? IIRC Windows' file explorer supports it natively. rsync ? (over ssh ?) (hey, that's another fine piece of software A. Tridgell is reponsible for) It's difficult to give a advice without knowing the use case.
