Posted by
Hemos
on from the hey-now-get-yer-fileserver-on dept.
GTO-Crank writes "Here's the changlog with all the fixes, enhancments, and sorce code for the new release of Samba 2.2.5. Also worth taking a look is this tutorial called "Using an LDAP directory for Samba authentication", and this tutorial called "Using Samba as a primary domain controller"."
Samba on Linux vs. NFS on windows
by
Outland+Traveller
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· Score: 3, Insightful
The practical answer to your question is that almost every NFS implementation for windows is slow, buggy, and expensive while SAMBA for most unixes is fast, stable, and free.
On the technical side I would even offer the opinion that CIFS (SMB) is a better file sharing protocol than NFS. For one thing, it is MUCH easier to secure.
Unfortunately, for all its ease of use NFS is a pretty crappy way to share files, even under unix. All those people who whine constantly about replacing the perfectly reasonable X server should really be complaining about replacing NFS.
I have a feeling that all those whiners are single desktop users who never get the idea of network computing.
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The practical answer to your question is that almost every NFS implementation for windows is slow, buggy, and expensive while SAMBA for most unixes is fast, stable, and free.
On the technical side I would even offer the opinion that CIFS (SMB) is a better file sharing protocol than NFS. For one thing, it is MUCH easier to secure.
Unfortunately, for all its ease of use NFS is a pretty crappy way to share files, even under unix. All those people who whine constantly about replacing the perfectly reasonable X server should really be complaining about replacing NFS.
I have a feeling that all those whiners are single desktop users who never get the idea of network computing.