[Samba] Samba "Preferred Platform"

[William W. Hammond]

At 04:29 AM 6/28/2008, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > I have set up several OpenSuSE 10.3 File Servers...
> > These are small environments, 5 - 15 workstations.
> > They are purely File (and possibly Application) Servers....
> > All are AMD64.
> > Since the Servers only purpose in life is to support Samba.
> > 1.)  Is there a platform Linux/Unix, where Samba is better supported...?
>
>No.  I run Samba on CentOS, RHEL, SLES, & openSUSE.  The distribution
>makes almost no difference at all. Samba is Samba,  like most LINUX/UNIX
>services it is the same code regardless on what OS or distribution-of-OS
>you run it on.  You can switch around but you won't notice any
>difference (including performance, despite what "lite" distributions
>claim) unless someone screwed something up rather badly.
>
> > 2.)  Does Samba utilize a 64 bit environment, or is it better to
> > install 32 bit for compatibility..?
> > A GUI is nice, I can get around in the CLI, but by no means am I 
> proficient.
>
>Then stick with openSUSE / SLES as YaST is the only remotely complete
>system management interface available.  Most of my production servers
>are CentOS (entirely for political reasons - enterprise LINUX in the USA
>== RedHat, at least in the minds of 99% of vendors) and I *really* miss
>YaST when I have to grouse around to find some stupid file to change
>some trivial setting.  I've been a UNIX admin for 15 years; the state of
>system management in the UNIX world is ridiculous with the exception of
>SUSE - the guys at Novell "get it".


Good stuff to know, thanks for the reinforcement...


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