On 7/14/2014 2:15 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
jdebert wrote:
Couldn't get smb or netbios for Linux 0.99. Not that I didn't try. I needed them but they were not available. Didn't see a working smb implementation til Redhat 5. Even then, was flaky.
---- That was before I got into Linux... I didn't get into linux until RH5...so that would explain perceptions.
We had smb on IRIX before that as Jeremy was employed at sgi as well for some number of years.
Anyway, NFS was on most platforms I was on and I often tried to make it work as a sub for smb -- as it had better access control at the time, but it was always notably slower (even with TCP connections and larger bufs)...
Wasn't until 10Gb ethernet that I hit algorithmic speed problems in smb, as it only uses 1 tcp connection per-user-server. Not much way to parallelize that.
I can't remember my first use of SMB, but prior to that the organizations I worked for were using Novell Netware. Converting to Linux Samba was pretty simple (all windows machines). When we started adding Linux workstations for the engineering group we fiddeled around with NFS, but the need (at that time) to sync userids on all those machines became a nightmare. (Probably due to our ignorance, but still a hassle). So we kept samba for the linux workstations as well. Never encountered any speed problems that couldn't be solved with faster nics. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org