sed /samba 4/samba 2.2.5/ George Toft, CISSP, MSIS AGD,LLC www.agdllc.com 623-203-1760 When was the last time you backed up your business data? Excellent! When did you verify that your backups actually worked? George Toft wrote: > *** PERSONAL OPINION FOLLOWS *** > > I had a SuSE file server serving up a Windows workgroup. One night, the > SuSE updater thing (fou4s) updated samba from version 3 to version 4. > The new config file was not configured so it did not work. Dead > fileserver :( > > It took less time for me to set up samba using the "old" config on a > RHEL3 box on the same network than I figured it would be to learn the > new config file, test, validate, etc. > > so...... > > IMO, I would avoid SuSE. After Novell bought it, the quality took a > quantum drop (maybe multiple quantum drops). I found it hung frequently > (SuSE Enterprise Server 9 and SuSE Workstation 9.1). I am not > impressed. For those of you that know me, know that I pushed SuSE for > years. Plenty of distro flame wars in the archives show that I > supported SuSE. All things change. > > Red Hat, on the other hand, is a pleasure to deal with. LSB-compliant, > well documented, stable. I am in charge of over 120 Red Hat Enterprise > Linux servers for one of my clients, and I have only seen one > vendor-related problem. RHEL 4 has at least two improvements that I > submitted, which demonstrates their commitment to improving the product. > > Biggest point to consider is that Red Hat won't change the versions of > the packages you are using. Any security issues that arise are > back-ported to the supported releases, but you won't see the problem I > had with SuSE described above. > > George Toft, CISSP, MSIS > AGD,LLC > www.agdllc.com > 623-203-1760 > > When was the last time you backed up your business data? > Excellent! When did you verify that your backups actually worked? > > > > > > Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote: > >> Ok, I am about to add a file server into our Microsoft domain (I >> hope) I have >> looked at all the read me's and it seems that samba 4 should handle the >> Microsoft permissions no problem. I am looking at either SuSE 9 >> Enterprise or >> Red Hat Enterprise. Any thought, recommendations, experiences, or >> warnings? It's for my work so I am quite nervous. I real would hat to >> have them drop $3K >> just to tell them “Opps! You have to drop another $8K to make it work >> because >> were going Microsoft.” >> >> 1) Has anyone ever done this before? >> 2) What can you tell me about doing it? >> 3) If I were to choose SuSE vs. Red Hat as an file server that is >> integrated >> into a MS Active Directory, which would you recommend and why? >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss