Samba success story

[Angus Robertson]

Hey,

I just want to congratulate the Samba team on all their great work. We have been
running Samba in production since mid october of 1999.

Setup:

PDC is a Dell 4350 w/ Samba 2.1 CVS from mid october (LDAP enabled) running
RedHat 6.1 (kernel 2.2.12) and OpenLDAP 1.2.9 (w/o threads and w/ BerkelyDB
2.7.7).

File server is an SGI Origin 2000 w/ Samba 2.0.5 and Irix 6.5.5 joined to the
domain.

We have 250 Dell/Gateway workstations w/ NT SP6 in the domain authenticating
against the PDC and using the File server.

We're using policies, profiles and login scripts (KIXTART - referencing NT groups
in Samba-LDAP).

The speed/reliablity is incredible. The login time is small, even with
downloading the profile (we have a cap of 1.5MB), and mapping the drives/printers
using KIXTART - much faster than NT server :). We've never had any of the servers
or services die! Samba's been running without a hitch on both machines since our
last maintenance downtime over 80 days ago. As a network/systems administrator
it's great to put a solution in place and be able to forget about it.

Thanks again for the hard work, I hate to think where we'd be without Samba ;).

angus