On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Dave Cross wrote: > 1/ How much chance is there that a Samba installation will cause > problems? How stable is Samba?
Plenty of people here have more informed opinions than me, I'll leave them to fight it out > 2/ Is there anyone that will provide a commercial support contract > for Samba? You want to give someone moeny for a service ? Of course someone will take your money, no idea who is reliable though. > 3/ Are there any other solutions we can look at - like, perhaps, > an NFS client for Windows? NFS on windows has a bit of a chequered history of reliability, however I'll stick in a good word for OmniNFS and the other NFS stuff from xlink(.com) - the only on-going reliable nfs server I've ever encounted for windows (and I've tried several) and they do client and server, but also full gateway products so you might want to install the on one server, and then let that proxy between nfs and samba. the hatter
