Greg J. Zartman, P.E.
> > Fact is, most of us don't have farms of domain controllers and hundreds and hundreds of users. Most of us manage small to medium sized networks that can benefit hugely by the cost savings of deploying Samba instead of Windows. I'm not talking about just costs of software licenses; but cost of hardware, sys admin staff, and down time. Yup. For small-ish networks, nt4 servers are 'good enough'. Last I checked, MS imposes an artificial limit on its servers, where a server can only serve its own subnet. Samba doesn't have this limit. So a single multi-homed samba server can do the work of several MS servers. So you don't need AD with samba as much since everything is on one server anyway whereas with MS you need multiple servers and all the management overhead that entails. I could be wrong on this; it was true the last time I ripped out a bunch of MS servers and replaced them with samba. This was some time ago.... Anyone know if it's still a limitation? -- Windows is like a canary in a coal mine, it's the first thing to die on your network. -- Windows is like a canary in a coal mine, it's the first thing to die on your network. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
