Re: alternative to samba

From: Robert Eskridge <bryny_at_dfweahs.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:00:49 -0600
Message-ID: <18265191031.20040322120049@dfweahs.net>

A> Okay, don't shoot the messenger, I think the question is kind of silly A> myself, but I have been directed to ask.

A> As Samba is open source, and we don't know (if it breaks) who we will be
A> able to get to support the product.  AND, is there an alternative that is
A> for sale from a company that accomplishes the same thing (allowing for the
A> mapping of a drive from a windows machine to a Unix machine, primarily) that
A> we can pay money for...

Instead of Unix doing CIFS you could have Windows doing NFS and have a Microsoft solution with their Services for Unix (SFU).

http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/2/5f26ad97-ace1-4454-975c-bca19dbd61d1/sfu35intro.doc

I haven't used it myself since I think open source support is superior to Microsoft support, but their documents say it would work.

And I won't shoot the messenger, sounds like the company is perfectly capable of shooting themselves.

-rje

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