> I have set up several OpenSuSE 10.3 File Servers... > These are small environments, 5 - 15 workstations. > They are purely File (and possibly Application) Servers.... > All are AMD64. > Since the Servers only purpose in life is to support Samba. > 1.) Is there a platform Linux/Unix, where Samba is better supported...?
No. I run Samba on CentOS, RHEL, SLES, & openSUSE. The distribution makes almost no difference at all. Samba is Samba, like most LINUX/UNIX services it is the same code regardless on what OS or distribution-of-OS you run it on. You can switch around but you won't notice any difference (including performance, despite what "lite" distributions claim) unless someone screwed something up rather badly. > 2.) Does Samba utilize a 64 bit environment, or is it better to > install 32 bit for compatibility..? > A GUI is nice, I can get around in the CLI, but by no means am I proficient. Then stick with openSUSE / SLES as YaST is the only remotely complete system management interface available. Most of my production servers are CentOS (entirely for political reasons - enterprise LINUX in the USA == RedHat, at least in the minds of 99% of vendors) and I *really* miss YaST when I have to grouse around to find some stupid file to change some trivial setting. I've been a UNIX admin for 15 years; the state of system management in the UNIX world is ridiculous with the exception of SUSE - the guys at Novell "get it". > Performance Technology Systems Design > "Never Promise more than you can deliver... > Always Deliver more than you promise.." -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba