On Friday, March 28, 2014 07:05 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 01:06:00PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
Running oi -b 151_a8
I'm having a problem with smb/server in that it falls into
maintenance mode and logs say:
[...]
smbd: kernel bind error: Address already in use
[...]
But before I dig into that problem, and just from laziness, I want to
ask if there is any reason not to just go to samba?
I have seen a few arguments on the openindiana groups, saying that
the smb/server is not really as stable and possibly may not have the
actual thruput for some reasons I did not understand, as samba.
OK, so being a beginner of sorts... and lazy, not really craving to
dig into something I know little or nothing about. That is, I am not
well versed in any stretch of imagination in these discussions.
I kind of lean to samba since I've run it for years on linux and at
least have some familiarity with it.
What do experienced users say about it?
I have nothing too scientific to add. smb/server has always *felt*
slower, and it also only does SMB 1.0 (well, at least in NexentaStor
3.1.5, though I believe they're adding SMB 2.x support in 4.0 which
we're looking forward to). I always kind of wondered why Samba wasn't
used -- seems to be faster, have far more features and of course is
quite mature. Seems like a lot of redundant effort, though perhaps
there were some good reason (licensing, etc.?)
It is really funny that you heard or felt that smb/server is slower. I
don't use smb/server and the one time I did, it had the lowest latency
of all and users felt it was snappy.
I have had problems with both smb/server and samba. The problem I had
with smb/server seems to have been an edge case (accessible only through
\\ip.addr and not through \\shortname or \\fqdn; see
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1087) but other than that it was
'blazing' fast.
samba has the features I want but the packaged samba gave me no end of
trouble. The main issue with 3.5.x of samba on illumos was getting a
long list of detached smbd processes over time that were doing nothing
but were somehow slowing things down whether by taking up slots or doing
something else and required a cron job to kill them off. Then there was
the major winbind bug in the versions below 3.5.12.
https://www.illumos.org/issues/2172
I am currently running 3.6 and will soon switch over to 4.1 for file
serving. I have a 4.1 instance acting as an AD DC in production.
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