Hi Yoss, I've used Samba on Solaris on both Sparc and Intel hardware and it works almost identically to Samba on Linux. The locations of the Samba files are different because Red Hat nicely integrates Samba into the OS. On Solaris, the default is /usr/local/samba. You may need to write or customize the /etc/init.d script, depending on which version of Samba you install. I used Samba on a dual processor Sun Enterprise 450 with 120 home directories and 40 shares with a variety of security permissions. This same server also ran a Lotus Notes email server. It proved to be Microsoft virus proof and ran for months between reboots. Samba is very efficient with system resources, so performance was excellent. Solaris dedicated one of the processors for running the Notes server, so file/print requests were fast and reliable. If someone from Red Hat is listening, I've been running Red Hat since version 5.2. I'm on 9.0 now, and I use the boxed version for my workstation that doubles as a Samba domain and file/print, DNS, DHCP and NFS server. It also runs Win4Lin so I can support my "legacy applications." If you take those functions out of the lower priced distributions (call it workstation or whatever), you take away my primary training tool. I can't afford to buy Enterprise to run at home on a two or three user network. If you want us to install a licensed Enterprise version in the server room, I'm OK with that. We'll buy it with the hardware. But please don't cripple the low end boxed versions. You'll cripple my training program if you do. Please don't act like Microsoft and try to drain our wallets through licensing costs. Tom Thomas S. Fortner Burleson, Texas thomas.fortner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx "but we preach Christ crucified..." 1 Corinthians 1:23 Message: 40 Subject: RE: How to integrate all systems? Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 13:33:58 +0700 From: "Test Admin" <testadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Looks like I've met the expert from other side of the continent. Currently I'm using SAMBA 2.1.x in my RH8, it's PDC for our network...for user authentication propose only. Now, I'm trying with other OS, for start point, I have Sun Solaris 2.x in another network. Anyone has experience on SAMBA installation in this platform ? Please share with me Best Rgds TIA Yoss -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
