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On 4/10/2012 5:07 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
HG said the following on 04/10/2012 02:14 AM:
This may have been the situation some day - but I dare to claim that it's not it anymore. In fact, I've never seen such use actually. Small companies, who look for cheaper alternatives, use samba as their file server. Larger companies go with MS and they do not mix. Yes, you can probably give examples of companies that do what you say. I claim that it doesn't even matter that much.
I don't know about small companies, but my clients, who are international banks and large Telecoms firms use SAMBA. Not on Linux mind; they run it on "Big iron", HP/UX or AIX and it serves 5000 to 20,000 seats. What makes you think that larger companies aren't looking for 'cheaper alternatives' or to get away from MS licensing?
Mind you, at one Telecom firm the reason given was "the stability and reliability of SAMBA so exceeds that of Windows servers that its not even worth discussing".
Oh, and yes, I know people who use it at home.
Exactly. For every home user there several hundred corporate workstations connected to SAMBA without the users even knowing about it. The samba team didn't bother to make full MS Domain controller technology work to impress the home enthusiast. And in nearly all of the sites I've worked with that use samba, (mostly at the state government level) none of the users actually had accounts on the Linux machine. The proposal for Linux side management of passwords is already do-able with existing utilities. Just takes a little scripting. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org