Ok, I have a question. What is the best Linux distribution for Samba? Mandrake is giving me lots of trouble and I think it is because of all the RPMs that install with it. Will Samba work better on a kernel built from Scratch? Better on BSD? Solaris? What is the best? I am setting up a file server and maybe a squid proxy. Does squid have problems with Samba? I have here ipchains cause samba problems? I'm not dumb, so be frank with me. I know somebody out there is running a clean samba setup with all the bells and whistles how do you do it? Also I run no NT or Win2000 only 98. So I would like samba to be the PDC. WINs server if that's the best route. Let me know. Somebody Thanks in advance! Dan Pupek President, Southwest Oklahoma Web Developers Guild On the Web: http://www.sunnet.net/dnkp/dan Email: megabyte@sunnet.net -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed
Here's what I can tell you.? I run Samba 2.0.7 on Redhat 7.0 with no problems, although I do intend to upgrade both.? I can't offer any info on?other *nix's, I haven't used them.? Squid doesn't have any problems with Samba, in fact, I use smb_auth for my squid?authentications, that way my users don't have to remember multiple usernames and passwords.? Email me off-list if you want/need help with it.? Chaining shouldn't be a concern unless you intend to share thru the firewall.? If you do everything on the same side of the wall,?IP chains?won't matter.? I?use WINS support on my Samba server, it works very well for my small (<500 node) network.? If your a large network, you may get better performance from DNS, but that's not really an issue for this list ;)? With the release of 2.2, your client OS's don't matter anymore.? Samba will be a PDC for any Win machine. ? Hope that helps, ?-- Mike -----Original Message----- From: Dan Pupek [mailto:dnkp@swbell.net] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:41 AM To: Samba List Subject: Best Distro for Samba Ok, I have a question. What is the best Linux distribution for Samba? Mandrake is giving me lots of trouble and I think it is because of all the RPMs that install with it. Will Samba work better on a kernel built from Scratch? Better on? BSD? Solaris? What is the best? I am setting up a file server and maybe a squid proxy. ? Does squid have problems with Samba? I have here ipchains cause samba problems? I'm not dumb, so be frank with me. I know somebody out there is running a clean samba setup with all the bells and whistles how do you do it? Also I run no NT or Win2000 only 98. So I would like samba to be the PDC. WINs server if that's the best route. ? Let me know. Somebody ? Thanks in advance! ? Dan Pupek President, Southwest Oklahoma Web Developers Guild ? On the Web: http://www.sunnet.net/dnkp/dan ? Email: megabyte@sunnet.net
Dan Pupek <dnkp@swbell.net> First off, it would be best to configure your e-mail client for plain text, at least to this list. Many people use e-mail clients that don't deal well with anything other than plain text.>Ok, I have a question. >What is the best Linux distribution for Samba? >Mandrake is giving me lots of trouble and I think it is because of all the >RPMs that install with it. Will Samba work better on a kernel built from >Scratch? Better on BSD? Solaris? What is the best? I am setting up a file >server and maybe a squid proxy.I'm not sure there's really a "best" distro for running Samba. It depends largely on what you're comfortable with and what your needs are. We've been running Samba here since 1998 on RedHat and I've been happy with it, barring some trouble with SMP kernels. I don't have any experience with Mandrake but what kind of problems is it giving you? If you're concerned about the number of RPM's installed out of the box, you can always 'rpm -e [packagename]' to remove them. If you're not sure what a package does, 'rpm -qi [packagename]' will give you some detail and finally 'rpm -qa | sort | more' will list all the packages installed. RedHat and other distros will typically install many packages you probably don't want/need but rpm makes it really easy to manage/remove/etc them. Be sure to keep up with your vendors updated RPMs, especially the security related ones.>Does squid have problems with Samba?Squid and Samba are unrelated services. That said, Squid & Samba ran side-by-side here on the same server for quite some time with no problems. Squid will use as much RAM and disk space as you let it so you may want to go heavy on the RAM and put the Squid disk cache on its own physical disk (fast SCSI disk recommended). Again, this depends on your setup - how many clients will you be serving with Squid and Samba?>I have here ipchains cause samba problems?Barring incorrect ipchains rules, no. ;-)>I'm not dumb, so be frank with me. I know somebody out there is running a >clean samba setup with all the bells and whistles how do you do it? Also I >run no NT or Win2000 only 98. So I would like samba to be the PDC. WINs >server if that's the best route.We have Win '95 clients here, but are moving to a combination of NT workstation and 2000. There are a handful of '98 clients but not many, but I don't think they're significantly different than '95 where samba is concerned. Samba can act as a PDC for 98/98 clients although interaction between a Samba PDC and an NT PDC/BDC is limited AFAIK - read the documentation on the samba website for more information. I'd recommend enabling the WINS server portion of samba since WINS resolves by broadcast without a WINS server. There's good documentation available on the Samba website ( http://www.samba.org ) as well as links to a number of excellent books written by members of the Samba team (thanks guys!). "Using Samba" is available in HTML format from the O'Reilly website and is included as part of the 2.0.7 RPM I have. Consider the FAQs and smb.conf documentation required reading before getting started. -Eric Eric Sisler Library Computer Technician Westminster Public Library Westminster, CO, USA esisler@westminster.lib.co.us Linux - don't fear the Penguin. Want to know what we use Linux for? Visit http://gromit.westminster.lib.co.us/linux