samba - Feb 2000 - Safe and stable??

Have been running Samba 2.0.6 on a RH6.1 box kernel 2.2.14 for two months
now.  It is the PDC and storage for documents.  It is running on a 10Mb/s
local network with 4 Win98 machines.  So far there have been no glitches -
I have kept to the defaults (just about).

I am now thinking of moving a 'mission critical' shared database
(currently on one of the Win98 machines) onto the share on the Linux box -
would you be happy doing this if it was yours???

I would be grateful for any advice.
 
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Mike asked:
| I am now thinking of moving a 'mission critical' shared database
| (currently on one of the Win98 machines) onto the share on the Linux
box -
| would you be happy doing this if it was yours???

	Depends entirely on the programs acessing it!

	The system-side stability of Samba is fine, but 
	if the client uses an idiosyncratic locking
	strategy, it may or may not be supported on
	Samba (or, to be fair, on NT).

	What's the program?  Several are well-known
	to the list...

--dave
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