Samba Server on Centos ... or Ubuntu ... or Some Other Distro

[Nathan England]

One of the most irittating things about RH is they include a wierd version
of adduser which doesn't allow a $ in the name, so you have to manually
add each machine account to the passwd file, instead of being able to let
the windows machine join the domain the normal way. It's not a horrible
situation, but is annoying. Personally, I like archlinux for my servers.
Though I'm still using some RHEL4 machines, they are being phased out with
Arch.

Nathan

> I have a friend who wants to move his co's (windows type) files from a
> dated
> Novel server to a Linux box using Samba.
>
> I can load Centos or UBUNTU in the box.  I like Debian based distros for
> stability and was wondering if Centos (RH) has an advantage over a Debian
> distro given the nature of this being a 100% server system.
>
> Also, what better distros might there be over UBUNTU (I have UBUNTU 5.1)?
>
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> George
>
> "Nothing is impossible for the person who doesn't have to do it himself"
> ...
> Weller's Law
>
>
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