we ran into the same support issues, ended up digging into the config files and doing things through trial and error. Unfortunately, the existing docs are complete crap, so its next to impossible to do anything really different with the product. Who knows if there will ever be a version 6. I think that, for the most part, we are abandoning the use of this product and moving onto something else.
It would have been nice to have google let us know that this product is essentially dead though:(
I am a programmer analyst for a Univ in the USA and They let me have a mac mini and a linux box in addition to my xp box, all tied together running multiple monitors using synergy over ssh.
This is for 2 reasons really, to test browser compatability for any webapps, and to have an environment somewhat similiar to our server env.
Especially if you do ANY web app design at all, you can push the need for browser compatability to get the other box. Another reason to get one is to have a test environment so that you are not writing scripts against a prod environment (i frequently write scripts for solaris boxes on either my mac or linux box).
the only reason they even require us to have xp is for the state mandated Exchange client (outlook, but linux apps are catching up really fast compatability wise) and our call monitoring system.
I should also mention that this box is a monster 4x900mhz sparc box with 4gb ram serving 2000-5000 client connections with samba alone at any one time. there are many other services running (sun web+coldfusion, ftp, apache+php, NFS) and it never breaks a sweat. With that in mind, samba is definitely not "amateur" nor is it not suitable for enterprise deployments. We have windows servers also and it beats the holy hell out of them as far as responsiveness and uptime is concerned.
we have over 10,000 users (students/faculty/staff) with home directories on a single sparc solaris samba box (files stored on a SAN), and i can't say that we have had any problems with it. It has been extremely reliable for the past 5+ years we have been using it.
Just like the "National Security" issue with the illegal wiretapping mentioned before, this is yet another example of the US government overstepping its bounds. The reason (I hope, ideally at least) that people even become informants is because they see something wrong, where an official or entity has illegally or immorally done something that violates ours or anothers freedoms, whether it be life, privacy, or whatever. This will further stifle the ability of informants to help provide the checks and balances needed to make sure that our government entities, whether it be the CIA, FBI, NSA, or worse, have the discipline needed to keep them in check. If "deepthroat" would not have come forward, what else would nixon have done. What about the illegal wiretapping? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but there is probably a lot that we do not know currently that we should.
Informants provide the leash around the dogs that are out of control, lets keep it that way.
What this all comes down to is our responsibilities as users and developers to the OSS products we use. Part of the idea behind open source is that the users contribute back to the project to better the project. You do not have to be a developer to do this, you can submit bug reports, help with graphics/web design, help with documentation, etc...
With the nessus project, yes there is community development, but the amount of contributed code was disproportionate to the long hard hours the core team has put in to it. I am not saying that community developers have done nothing, but a good example of what i mean is located http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=newes there. These people have families, or at least need to feed themselves, and cannot put this amount of work into a product that is making others money while they may or may not be going through hardship themselves.
In the end, you get what you pay for. Whether it be MS Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Nessus, whatever..... Either you pay in cash or make your contribution.
I will continue to use Nessus, it has saved my a** numerous times and will continue to do so for as long as it is a great product.
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we ran into the same support issues, ended up digging into the config files and doing things through trial and error. Unfortunately, the existing docs are complete crap, so its next to impossible to do anything really different with the product. Who knows if there will ever be a version 6. I think that, for the most part, we are abandoning the use of this product and moving onto something else.
:(
It would have been nice to have google let us know that this product is essentially dead though
I am a programmer analyst for a Univ in the USA and They let me have a mac mini and a linux box in addition to my xp box, all tied together running multiple monitors using synergy over ssh. This is for 2 reasons really, to test browser compatability for any webapps, and to have an environment somewhat similiar to our server env. Especially if you do ANY web app design at all, you can push the need for browser compatability to get the other box. Another reason to get one is to have a test environment so that you are not writing scripts against a prod environment (i frequently write scripts for solaris boxes on either my mac or linux box). the only reason they even require us to have xp is for the state mandated Exchange client (outlook, but linux apps are catching up really fast compatability wise) and our call monitoring system.
At USD we use WebCT 4 and i can confirm that it runs like utter garbage on vista/ie7.
I should also mention that this box is a monster 4x900mhz sparc box with 4gb ram serving 2000-5000 client connections with samba alone at any one time. there are many other services running (sun web+coldfusion, ftp, apache+php, NFS) and it never breaks a sweat. With that in mind, samba is definitely not "amateur" nor is it not suitable for enterprise deployments. We have windows servers also and it beats the holy hell out of them as far as responsiveness and uptime is concerned.
we have over 10,000 users (students/faculty/staff) with home directories on a single sparc solaris samba box (files stored on a SAN), and i can't say that we have had any problems with it. It has been extremely reliable for the past 5+ years we have been using it.
Just like the "National Security" issue with the illegal wiretapping mentioned before, this is yet another example of the US government overstepping its bounds. The reason (I hope, ideally at least) that people even become informants is because they see something wrong, where an official or entity has illegally or immorally done something that violates ours or anothers freedoms, whether it be life, privacy, or whatever. This will further stifle the ability of informants to help provide the checks and balances needed to make sure that our government entities, whether it be the CIA, FBI, NSA, or worse, have the discipline needed to keep them in check. If "deepthroat" would not have come forward, what else would nixon have done. What about the illegal wiretapping? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but there is probably a lot that we do not know currently that we should.
Informants provide the leash around the dogs that are out of control, lets keep it that way.
What this all comes down to is our responsibilities as users and developers to the OSS products we use. Part of the idea behind open source is that the users contribute back to the project to better the project. You do not have to be a developer to do this, you can submit bug reports, help with graphics/web design, help with documentation, etc...
s there. These people have families, or at least need to feed themselves, and cannot put this amount of work into a product that is making others money while they may or may not be going through hardship themselves.
With the nessus project, yes there is community development, but the amount of contributed code was disproportionate to the long hard hours the core team has put in to it. I am not saying that community developers have done nothing, but a good example of what i mean is located http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=newe
In the end, you get what you pay for. Whether it be MS Windows, FreeBSD, Linux, Nessus, whatever..... Either you pay in cash or make your contribution.
I will continue to use Nessus, it has saved my a** numerous times and will continue to do so for as long as it is a great product.