Best Distro for Samba

[McEldowney, Michael]

Here's what I can tell you.  I run Samba 2.0.7 on Redhat 7.0 with no
problems, although I do intend to upgrade both.  I can't offer any info
on other *nix's, I haven't used them.  Squid doesn't have any problems
with Samba, in fact, I use smb_auth for my squid authentications, that
way my users don't have to remember multiple usernames and passwords. 
Email me off-list if you want/need help with it.  Chaining shouldn't be
a concern unless you intend to share thru the firewall.  If you do
everything on the same side of the wall, IP chains won't matter.  I use
WINS support on my Samba server, it works very well for my small (<500
node) network.  If your a large network, you may get better performance
from DNS, but that's not really an issue for this list ;)  With the
release of 2.2, your client OS's don't matter anymore.  Samba will be a
PDC for any Win machine.
 
Hope that helps,
 -- Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Pupek [mailto:dnkp at swbell.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:41 AM
To: Samba List
Subject: Best Distro for Samba


Ok, I have a question.
What is the best Linux distribution for Samba? 
Mandrake is giving me lots of trouble and I think it is because of all
the RPMs that install with it. Will Samba work better on a kernel built
from Scratch? Better on  BSD? Solaris? What is the best? I am setting up
a file server and maybe a squid proxy. 
 
Does squid have problems with Samba?
I have here ipchains cause samba problems?
I'm not dumb, so be frank with me. I know somebody out there is running
a clean samba setup with all the bells and whistles how do you do it?
Also I run no NT or Win2000 only 98. So I would like samba to be the
PDC. WINs server if that's the best route.
 
Let me know. Somebody
 
Thanks in advance!
 
Dan Pupek
President, Southwest Oklahoma Web Developers Guild
 
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