In a discussion with one of the main answer people, of whose time I am greatly appreciative, it was suggested that some of my problem (or solution) may be to run Samba on a distro that's better suited for it. Problem is, I don't have the time nor the inclination to download a bunch of distros just to install, test, fdisk, repeat. So I ask. what is a recommended recent distro that works well with Samba 3? Drake? Debian? SuSE? RH9? All answers welcome, with explanations or not. Thanks Eric
GNU/Linux suits it nicely. The only thing a distribution adds is: Support, documentation and installation/configuration programs. I like suse for that, but I do also love Slackware. And I like Debian's apt-get, which I use on SuSE :P Use any distribution where you can get GCC to work, so you can download, compile and install the required libraries for samba, and then, samba itself. Bye PS: I work for the argentinian SuSE business partner :P -- Arturo Busleiman - [ i n t r a R e d e s s r l ] Piedras 264 - 2 A (C1070AAF) - Buenos Aires - ARGENTINA Te.: (54 11) 4342-0049 - http://www.intraredes.com/ mailto:arturo.busleiman@intraredes.com On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Eric Geater 11/18/03 wrote:> In a discussion with one of the main answer people, of whose time I am > greatly appreciative, it was suggested that some of my problem (or > solution) may be to run Samba on a distro that's better suited for it. > Problem is, I don't have the time nor the inclination to download a > bunch of distros just to install, test, fdisk, repeat. > > So I ask. what is a recommended recent distro that works well with Samba > 3? Drake? Debian? SuSE? RH9? All answers welcome, with explanations > or not. > > Thanks > > Eric > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > >
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:40:40 -0600, Eric Geater 11/18/03 wrote:> So I ask. what is a recommended recent distro that works well with Samba > 3? Drake? Debian? SuSE? RH9? All answers welcome, with explanations > or not.For server-based implementations, Debian rules. Rock solid, strong security orientation, and the best package-management system on the planet. madmac
On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 05:40, Eric Geater 11/18/03 wrote:> In a discussion with one of the main answer people, of whose time I am > greatly appreciative, it was suggested that some of my problem (or > solution) may be to run Samba on a distro that's better suited for it. > Problem is, I don't have the time nor the inclination to download a > bunch of distros just to install, test, fdisk, repeat. > > So I ask. what is a recommended recent distro that works well with Samba > 3? Drake? Debian? SuSE? RH9? All answers welcome, with explanations > or not.A particular point to consider is the native support for MIT kerberos 1.3.1, or the right Heimdal version. Fedora Core 1 has this, and I think the latest SUSE does, Debian Testing and Debain Unstable do have the right krb5, but naturally Debian Stable does not. In particular, note RH9 does NOT, and this can get in your way. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20031122/f40551dd/attachment.bin