we are running an older version of RH (7.3) - and I am getting concerned that I may need to migrate off of it - but I dont know what I should move to. Trying to formulate ideas before it becomes a 'got to do it now' scenario. I have some reservations about fedora - I just dont know how stable it is for a production server (our services are mainly samba/ldap/ntp/ssh/rsync/clamav) - we have about 15 samba servers in production currently. RHEL - well - the cost is a factor gentoo - takes to long to deploy Mandrake 10? What are some of the samba users recommendations? thanks
> I have some reservations about fedora - I just dont know how stable it > is for a production server (our services are mainly > samba/ldap/ntp/ssh/rsync/clamav) - we have about 15 samba servers in > production currently. > RHEL - well - the cost is a factor > gentoo - takes to long to deploy > Mandrake 10? > What are some of the samba users recommendations?SuSe. Inexpensive and pretty much gauranteed not to be dropped. We are just using the ordinary Pro version, it works very will. Still does all the normal RPM based management, and Red Carpet supports it.
i had the same situation here. i happened to be running RH (7.2) servers and addressing vulnerabilities started to become an issue. i went the fedora route with few problems, most of my own making. the upgrades went relatively smoothly. initial issues dealt with the upgrade picking up an old config file for a nic on one server and causing my wins server to not be able to find the server, causing domain login problems, and minor differences between older versions of samba and samba 3.0. fedora stability has not been an issue here. all they do is run, and run, and run ..... stuart ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris McKeever" <techjedi@gmail.com> To: <samba@samba.org> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:44 AM Subject: [Samba] Which distribution to rollout> we are running an older version of RH (7.3) - and I am getting > concerned that I may need to migrate off of it - but I dont know what > I should move to. Trying to formulate ideas before it becomes a 'got > to do it now' scenario. > > I have some reservations about fedora - I just dont know how stable it > is for a production server (our services are mainly > samba/ldap/ntp/ssh/rsync/clamav) - we have about 15 samba servers in > production currently. > > RHEL - well - the cost is a factor > > gentoo - takes to long to deploy > > Mandrake 10? > > What are some of the samba users recommendations? > > thanks > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Hi, i myself have running large setups with suse 9, but debian ( the new comes now up ) is always a good choice Regards Chris McKeever schrieb:> we are running an older version of RH (7.3) - and I am getting > concerned that I may need to migrate off of it - but I dont know what > I should move to. Trying to formulate ideas before it becomes a 'got > to do it now' scenario. > > I have some reservations about fedora - I just dont know how stable it > is for a production server (our services are mainly > samba/ldap/ntp/ssh/rsync/clamav) - we have about 15 samba servers in > production currently. > > RHEL - well - the cost is a factor > > gentoo - takes to long to deploy > > Mandrake 10? > > What are some of the samba users recommendations? > > thanks
I run Samba on OpenBSD. It isn't Linux, but it is free and works very well. It also isn't likely to go away or move to a less stable development any time soon. On Thursday 23 September 2004 09:44 am, Chris McKeever wrote:>we are running an older version of RH (7.3) - and I am getting >concerned that I may need to migrate off of it - but I dont know what >I should move to. Trying to formulate ideas before it becomes a 'got >to do it now' scenario. > >I have some reservations about fedora - I just dont know how stable it >is for a production server (our services are mainly >samba/ldap/ntp/ssh/rsync/clamav) - we have about 15 samba servers in >production currently. > >RHEL - well - the cost is a factor > >gentoo - takes to long to deploy > >Mandrake 10? > >What are some of the samba users recommendations? > >thanks-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Ramaley Digital Media Library Specialist (515) 271-1934 Cowles Library 140, Drake University
On Thursday 23 September 2004 10:44 am, Chris McKeever wrote:> gentoo - takes to long to deployI had been using SuSE for servers, still have 3 running version 7.3 but my 6 most recent server installs have been Gentoo. I actually find them (the Gentoo servers) much easier to maintain and keep up-to-date. Deployment on server grade hardware with no X is really pretty quick. Chris