Umm, smb is faster on windows? I don't know where you got that from, but it's completely false. smb is not native to windows, it's hacked into it. That's like saying tcp/ip is native to windows, windows tcp/ip stack came from BSD. smb is not a microsoft protocol, it came from IBM originaly. Linux far out performs Windows with Samba file/print sharing. Samba on MAC OS X would probably out perferm windows too however it wouldn't be a fair comparison there because you can't use the exact same hardware for both servers (MAC harware vs intel)
> Quoting Kevin Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > Just remember that Gentoo takes longer to install than a binary >> distro. >> >> How is that relevant? Comparing my Linux server, and my Windows >> server (from memory, I don't have any anymore). Windows was faster. > > It's very relevent. You are comparing a binary install of Windows to a > source install of Gentoo. A fair comparison would be of Red Hat and > Windows or Gentoo and getting a job as an MS developer so you can > compile Windows from source. Of course Windows is going to install > faster when you do an unfair comparison. > >> Samba needs an upgrade before it can be installed. Binary Distros are >> old, and Compile-on-the-fly need to be DLed and Compiled. Windows has >> no such need. Same with Email, Bind, Apache, etc. Closed source >> doesn't allow that >> kind of tuning, so it simply doesn't happen. > > Get the latest distro. and upgrade to it's latest packages. Installing > packages that just came out yesterday can be very risky for a production > server. Use the tested software that comes with your distro. even if it > is a month or two old. What are you going to recompile every time a > package comes out with a new version? That would be a full time job in > itself. > >> How much configuration needs to be done to get Samba running as a PDC? >> What >> about Windows? Windows IS faster at some things. > > Of course Windows is faster at some things. Especially with Samba since > the SMB protocol is native to Windows. > >> Ummm, connected to the box, maybe. But not network printers. I'm not >> saying it's hard, I'm just saying that it takes longer on Linux than >> on legacy. > > Yes it takes longer to setup network printers, but things like this just > keep getting easier in Linux. It was a pain in the ass two years ago, > but it's not so bad anymore. Just think what it will be like in two more > years ;-) > > Jesse
