Fabiano Felix wrote: Hi Felix, as I'm the author bear in mind I'm biased ;)
I want to use the samba-vscan module in a productivity environment, and I want to know that if someone have experience in this use? What's problems may be presented? There is some restriction about preformance?
Actually, samba-vscan has been only tested in a smaller workgroup environment by me. The performance impact varies and could be very huge, depending on the used virus scanner and files (~ types / sizes). You might have a look at http://www.openantivirus.org/diploma-thesis.pdf for some performance testings and figures.
It's trustworthy?
Hum, what's your definition of trustworthy here? Do you trust me? Do you trust open source? Or commercial, closed sources anti-virus products? :-)
I apreciate some user's story...
Hum, I'm only aware of http://computerdienst.kleinau.org/modules/tutorials/index.php?op=viewtutoria... Once in a while I receive positive feedback from people, who use it a small to mid-size environment. Some negative reports are - slowdown is just too big with larger MS Access databases (as the whole file has to be scanned) - transfering 1 GB of data via ICAP over wire is (obviously) just too slow Alternatives: - kernel-based like using Dazuko or closed sources ones like Trend Micros ServerProtect (not yet available for SuSE Linux). - F-Prot using the library wrapper technique - drawback: can not by design scan files which are put on share
I use the SLES8 version (I believe that is better to make a package update)...
I would recommend 0.3.4 Or, in short: try it and report the results back to us/me. HTH best regards, Rainer Link