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Author: George Toft
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CC: Asulug
Subject: Re: Linux File Server in an Microsoft Domain
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?
>
>
>
>
>
> 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?
>>
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