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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: alternative to samba
Ironically, we have a cost cutting initiative going on right now... :\
April Wells
Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA
Corporate Systems
Amarillo Texas
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Eskridge [mailto:bryny_at_dfweahs.net]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:01 PM
To: April Wells
Subject: Re: alternative to samba
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 forthe
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-bca19db d61d1/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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