[Fwd: DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals]

[Matthew Geddes]

Matthew Geddes wrote:

> Simon Murcott wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Matthew Geddes wrote:
> >
> >    Simon, I have seen other (truly) independent tests - I think ZDNet did
> >    some. They all say that Samba / Linux is up to 2.5 times better than NT at
> >    it's own job. Windows NT is a little better than Samba for up to 16 users
> >    and then it tends to go rapidly downhill. He He He.... I'll try and dig up
>
> >
> >    some links....
> >
> > Cool I could do with some ammo to aim at my fellow workmates :)
> >
>
> A little out of date, but so is NT apparently (Hooray for Windows 2000, for
> it... is...... well......... the same as NT, but with IE5 and more bloat  - oh
> yeah, and the "updated" (incompatible) NTFS)
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,396321,00.html
>
> According to this one, Samba is hard to configure and expensive to maintain. It
> hasn't cost me a cent yet (it's saved me a little time and came to the rescue of
> a couple of major South Australian hospitals a few times).
> http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,394079,00.html
>
> And finally, a bunch of Linux related articles. Some are good.
> http://www.zdnet.com/sr/filters/linux/
> Matt