Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:22 PM, steve st...@steve-ss.com wrote: On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 13:46 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:52:49 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, I ask this question about once a decade. I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? Not really. Samba is just a tool to deal with pesky mess-windows machines. On a pure UNIX (Linux, BSD, Solaris, AIX, etc.) LAN, Samba is about as useful as Air Conditioners in Antartica in the middle of the Antartic winter. Hi We network stand alone Linux and xp boxes using s4 AD. As the windows desks break and virus, we replace them with Linux. We have no intention of replacing Samba4 with anything else if the lan becomes pure Linux. The new integrated Kerberos/LDAP management from Samba 4 is better than OpenLDAP, especially with multiple platforms such as MacOS, windows, UNIx, and Linux. It's also handy for testing software for Windows based environments, such as source files that are mixed case but overlapping when put on CIFS, such ag getLen.h and GetLen.h. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba
Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:52:49 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, I ask this question about once a decade. I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? I haven't done timings against nfs for a while, but when I did, samba was notably faster than NFS... but that was back on 100Mb ether and alot has changed now. My current samba tops out at about 25% of a 20Gbit ether -- it becomes cpu bound due to the windows-design of 1 TCP connection serving all your file system requests. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
[Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba
Hi all, I ask this question about once a decade. I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba
On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, I ask this question about once a decade. I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? Yes! I've found samba and mount.cifs to be far faster than NFS, especially when the server is of limited resources. it's also easier since all your passwd dont' have to match up. though if you do take that effort you can use the unix-extensions and get back a lot of posix features that cifs doesn't normally do. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba
Hi Steve, I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? I'd use Samba only to support Windows users. Samba provides three things: 1. File Services 2. Print Services 3. Network Logons As you are a Unix-only shop, you have other (better) alternatives: 1. NFS, AFS 2. CUPS, LPD 3. LDAP, NIS, Kerberos Some people already know how to configure Samba, because they needed it for mixed Unix/Windows shops, and keeps using it for Unix-only shops. That's fine, you won't have to learn NFS, LDAP, etc. But if you already know those, and not Samba, adding samba would bring no value IMHO. []s, Fernando Lozano -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba
At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:52:49 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, I ask this question about once a decade. I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? Not really. Samba is just a tool to deal with pesky mess-windows machines. On a pure UNIX (Linux, BSD, Solaris, AIX, etc.) LAN, Samba is about as useful as Air Conditioners in Antartica in the middle of the Antartic winter. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software-- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
Re: [Samba] What great things can a non-windows user do with Samba
On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 13:46 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:52:49 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, I ask this question about once a decade. I have about 7 computers, all Linux or BSD. Are there any cool things I can do with Samba, even though I have no Windows computers? Not really. Samba is just a tool to deal with pesky mess-windows machines. On a pure UNIX (Linux, BSD, Solaris, AIX, etc.) LAN, Samba is about as useful as Air Conditioners in Antartica in the middle of the Antartic winter. Hi We network stand alone Linux and xp boxes using s4 AD. As the windows desks break and virus, we replace them with Linux. We have no intention of replacing Samba4 with anything else if the lan becomes pure Linux. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
