[Samba] Why is Samba4 not recommended as a file server?

Olivier Olivier.Nicole at cs.ait.ac.th
Thu Jul 28 05:43:54 UTC 2016


Mark Foley <mfoley at ohprs.org> writes:

> Since you bring up that topic (Samba4 not recommended as a file server), I've been meaning to
> ask on this list for a while: Why?
> [...]
>> As for the info you would like adding to the wiki, it used to be there, 
>> but when the wiki was re-written, it was removed. The thinking seemed to 
>> be, as samba doesn't recommend using the DC as a fileserver, it 
>> shouldn't be there. Samba has been recommending not using the DC as a 

What was said is "not using the DC as file server", not "not using
Samba".

My understanding is that it is better to have one machine running the DC
and another serving files.

Best regards,

Olivier



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