Samba

[leo2180]

What operating system is better to run Samba on Unix or Linux, is there a difference?  

 

[fenris]

I don't believe there is much of a difference. I think the difference is in whcih O/S you plan on having connect to the samba server. I use samba on Mandrake 7.0 with a win98 machine connecting with it to share files. With win98 you had to make sure that it uses plain text passwords (registry tweak), otherwise it would not work with the samba server.<br><br>That's my 2 cents. <p> fenris<br><a href=mailto:fenris@hotmail.com>fenris@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br> I am interested in Mining Software, as well as Genetic Algorithms.

 

[leo2180]

thanks Fenris.......

 

[AndyBo]

At the end of the day, Linux us just another flavour of Unix - it just can't use the Unix name...&nbsp;&nbsp;Anyway, it will probably come down to the hardware you run it on.<br><br>If you set up Samba on an Intel box with IDE disks and a 10Mb NIC running Linux, then performance will be OK.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you set it up on a SPARC box running Solaris with SCSI disks and a 100Mb, it will be better.&nbsp;&nbsp;Not necessarily because of the OS (although I think Solaris would win on fdisk access times, etc.), but because of the hardware.<br><br>See what budget you've got, then go out and get the best hardware combo you can afford.<br><br>Just to finish off, if you know you are going to have an Intel box and want to choose between, for example, SCO Unixware, Solaris for Intel, and Linux, I'd go for Linux.&nbsp;&nbsp;My reasons being that I've found Unixware 7 to be very flakey performance and stability wise, by all accounts Solaris for Intel has performance issues, and I've never had a problem with Linux.<br><br>Hope this helps. <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>--<br>
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[fenris]

On my home network I have samba running on Mandrake 7 allowing a win98 machine to share with it. The linux box has a 10/100 dlink card (via-rhine driver) but I can not get it to run at 100, so I settled for 10. The linux box also has ide harddrives which is what I have been able to scrounge. I must say that the transfer rates are remarkable fast (not as fast as 100TX), I can transfer large files between the computers while playing mp3's and still watch a movie that is stored on the linux box, all through samba. I must say that I was impressed!<br><br> <p> fenris<br><a href=mailto:fenris@hotmail.com>fenris@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>