[Samba] Samba vs Windows SAK

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 05:45, erx wrote:
> Has anyone seen this:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/Embedded/sak/evaluation/compare/advantage.asp
> 
> And has anyone from the Samba team posted a response? It seems like some of
> the information presented there is contrary to what I know about Samba.

When that paper was written, it was actually relatively accurate.  The
thing I enjoyed most about it was the fact that we now had a very nicely
packaged 'todo' list.

As JHT points out, we are pretty well finished on getting that TODO list
done!

Other items on the list came down to 'too much choice v MS picks it for
you', and still others picked out things that really were just plain
silly - like the different AC v LT quotas (that mess was insane!).

Finally, there is one point that they make well:

If you are a vendor, and you chose Samba, you have the costs of
integrating it into your environment - but they neglect to mention that
you also have the opportunity to integrate it into your environment -
not integrate your environment into it!

(This is what makes a Samba NAS more than a rack-mounted Windows install
IMHO).

Andrew Bartlett
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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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