Jon, Take a look at http://www.samba.org/ and read up on the flavor of *nix you are going to run Samba on. Some are more Samba & Admin friendly then others.
- David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 3:50 PM Subject: Samba > Looks like we're about to get a SAN. One thing I'd like to do with it is > migrate fileserving responsibility from a pair of HP9000s with > direct-attached RAID arrays to an Intel Linux box that gets its storage from > the SAN. Don't worry about scalability--those 9000s were seriously > underworked. This means migrating from HP's Advanced Server to Samba. > > I'm sure some of you have experienced Samba, but I haven't. Any gotchas I > should watch for? We have an NT4 LAN (we'll soon upgrade the PDC to Win2K > but we'll run in mixed mode for a very long time to come). > > Specific questions: > * Can I still create network shares from Server Mgr. Can I still use > Server Mgr to manage permissions? > * Can I still modify file-level permissions via Windows Explorer? > * Any issues related to long file names? Advanced Server handles LFNs > very poorly, imho, especially with respect to batch files. > > As always, your help is tremendously appreciated. > > jon > > Want to unsub? Do that here: > http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub > Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: > http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ > Want to unsub? Do that here: http://www.w2knews.com/rd/rd.cfm?id=unsub Need a good FAQ? Try this one first: http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/
