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Use the mirrors....There's a whole world of mirrors out there:
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Use the mirrors....There's a whole world of mirrors out there:
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Use the mirrors....There's a whole world of mirrors out there:
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Use the mirrors....There's a whole world of mirrors out there:
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Use the mirrors....There's a whole world of mirrors out there:
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Use the mirrors....There's a whole world of mirrors out there:
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Use the mirrors....There's a whole world of mirrors out there:
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Re:Seems to me mirroring should be First Priority.
There is one. It's called rsync. It is the only sensible way to operate a mirror network these days.
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Wrong forum?This question should probably be asked on a samba mailing list, or even better, search the archieves first.
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Re:6.0a upgrade fear
Anaconda kicks much tail.
Does anyone else notice a pattern here?
- Anaconda
- Asp and Asp 2
- Boa
- Bushmaster
- Caiman
- Cobra (Mk I and Mk III)
- Copperhead
- Coriolis
- Gecko
- Krait
- Mamba
- Python
- Sidewinder
- Viper 1 and 2
- Worm 1 and 2
Nominating companies or applications to match Hognose, Dodo, and Thargoid is left as an exercise to the reader.
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Re:Interesting
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Linux makes it happen...Indeed home networks are on the rise. People are beginning to realize that you don't have to have expensive equipment to have a network, nor do you have to be a company to benefit from one. Home networks allow you share resources such as the internet connection and file and print services with computers of varying platforms such as Win95/98/NT, and Mac. Linux Makes it trivial to set up a router that might otherwise cost you a bundle.
--Jamin Philip Gray
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Re:Finally the chance to abolish WINS
No, if you use SMB with NetBios, you still need WINS, no matter how many nifty tools you get on the internet side. If you want to dump WINS, dump Windows. If you can't do that, dump your Domain Controllers and install Samba on a Linux/BSD/Unix box. Samba's implementation of WINS integrates much better with internet naming systems.
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MySQL is another bad one
MySql is another bad one and it doesn't even attempt to follow the SQL standards!
Use PostgreSQL instead.
As for mirroring multiple machines, the best way to do this is to use rsync along with SSH 1.2.27 and the blowfish encryption which uses less CPU time. Also make sure to turn on compression in rsync, -z I believe.
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Michael Dillon - E-mail: michael@memra.com -
Re:How do I use samba as a client instead of serveactually, samba itself is not used as a client, although the 2.0x series has included some client utilities. e.g., http://us1.samba.org/samba/doc s/man/smbclient.1.html but make sure to read their disclaimer at http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ/#19 . the samba team is officially supporting http://us1.samba.org/samb a/ftp/docs/htmldocs/smbsh.1.html, though. regardless, if you're using linux chances are that with any utility you will probably need to compile smbfs into your kernel or load it as a module.
hope this helps.
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Re:How do I use samba as a client instead of serveactually, samba itself is not used as a client, although the 2.0x series has included some client utilities. e.g., http://us1.samba.org/samba/doc s/man/smbclient.1.html but make sure to read their disclaimer at http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ/#19 . the samba team is officially supporting http://us1.samba.org/samb a/ftp/docs/htmldocs/smbsh.1.html, though. regardless, if you're using linux chances are that with any utility you will probably need to compile smbfs into your kernel or load it as a module.
hope this helps.
-l
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Re:How do I use samba as a client instead of serveactually, samba itself is not used as a client, although the 2.0x series has included some client utilities. e.g., http://us1.samba.org/samba/doc s/man/smbclient.1.html but make sure to read their disclaimer at http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ/#19 . the samba team is officially supporting http://us1.samba.org/samb a/ftp/docs/htmldocs/smbsh.1.html, though. regardless, if you're using linux chances are that with any utility you will probably need to compile smbfs into your kernel or load it as a module.
hope this helps.
-l
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Samba (on overdrive) seems to thrash NT
Just having read Andrew Tridgell's discussion on emulating the netbench test, It seems that a modified kernel & samba can thrash NT at all client loads, (albiet at the cost of making risky changes), Im sure even with these changes, It would still be more stable than NT (Which crashed within 24 hours of delivery here!).
take a look at the figures, and an interesting document.
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Possible explanations?
Who says that they have no clue? I thought that they managed it very well to completely mis-tune the Linux system while not making it too obvious. Read this too and think about it. They claimed that they asked in newsgroups and mailing lists, but they did not mention in their report that they fine-tuned the file buffer, for example. I wonder how many manager-types "bought" this story. One can only hope that they'll install NT instead, pay far too much for the performance they'll get out of it, and never find out why other companies can operate better at a lower cost.
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Result was prescribed
Reading this reminded me to go to the Samba website and get 2.0.3. While there, I trawled through their press-releases. They cite this ZDNet/Sm@rt Reseller article that shows quite the opposite result. They provide very little set up info for their test procedure, but they show Linux/Samba outperforming NT consistently, in a test bed with 32 clients, measured by the same benchmarking software - NetBench 5. I don't know about the Sm@rt Reseller test, but I do think that Microsoft told these guys what to find - they have done it before - and these guys then looked for configurations to support those 'findings'.
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High Availablity Web ServicesIBM is one to talk. Ealier this month www.rs6000.ibm.com was down. When IBM can demonstrate that they can achieve high availablity for *their own* web servers, I will be more likely to listen to them.
I am currently working for an ISP that is taking advantage of affordable price of Linux to create a web farm which maintains high availablity for all of the round-robin IP addresses via Fake. The Fake package combined with Rsync make it trival to produce a scale-able web server enviroment.
Btw, we did evaluate AIX & HACMP as a possible solution. The turn-around time for leasing additional RS/6000 and the design of HACMP did not lend itself well on being able to grow a web farm on the fly as needed. The reality was that HACMP appeared to be much more difficult to administrate and *scale* than using the Linux Fake package.
Also, IBM is right that no one runs *1*-million-hits-per-day web sites on Linux. That is too trival. We are gearing to be prepair for 3-5 million-hits-per-day. We saw a web server become unavailable shortly after a popular prime time news program announced the address. With Linux, that will never happen to us.