samba - Mar 2000 - Network Computing Newsletter article...

Hey gang...

	An SMB server comparison article just showed up at Network Computing.

	http://www.networkcomputing.com/1104/1104f3.html

	They compare three SMB servers including Samba 2.0.6 and we took
first place (barely).  Zinged us on central administration.  Compaq's
SMB server has central configuration and administration of multiple
servers, which they liked a lot, apparently.

	Mike
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"Michael H. Warfield" wrote:
> 
>         An SMB server comparison article just showed up at Network
Computing.
> 
>         http://www.networkcomputing.com/1104/1104f3.html
> 
Looks like they got a few things wrong on the capabilities of samba.
Two obvious ones I noticed:

"Compaq Advanced Server let us specify that the Tru64 machine should 
ask an SMB server, or even an NT server, for its authentication instead 
of its /etc/password entries. Neither of the other two contestants 
offers this handy feature."

"Samba supports an HTTP/HTML interface, but it's available separately
and requires a Web server to be set up."

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I haven't read the article yet, however I believe the Compaq Advanced Server
is the old Pathworks Domain Manager server.  If I recall, it very costly to
implement client licenses.

Gary