I have set up several OpenSuSE 10.3 File Servers... These are small environments, 5 - 15 workstations. They are purely File (and possibly Application) Servers.... All are AMD64. Since the Servers only purpose in life is to support Samba. 1.) Is there a platform Linux/Unix, where Samba is better supported...? 2.) Does Samba utilize a 64 bit environment, or is it better to install 32 bit for compatibility..? A GUI is nice, I can get around in the CLI, but by no means am I proficient. Performance Technology Systems Design "Never Promise more than you can deliver... Always Deliver more than you promise.."
On Friday 27 June 2008 23:10:55 William W. Hammond wrote:> I have set up several OpenSuSE 10.3 File Servers... > > These are small environments, 5 - 15 workstations. > > They are purely File (and possibly Application) Servers.... > > All are AMD64. > > Since the Servers only purpose in life is to support Samba. > > 1.) Is there a platform Linux/Unix, where Samba is better supported...?OpenSUSE is OK. Red Hat Fedora or Ubuntu Server will work just as well. It's all a matter of how well you set things up and manage them.> 2.) Does Samba utilize a 64 bit environment, or is it better to > install 32 bit for compatibility..?Samba is 64-bit enabled. On OpenSUSE, Red Hat Fedora, Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit OS installations Samba is capable of running as a full 64-bit application.> > A GUI is nice, I can get around in the CLI, but by no means am I > proficient.So long as your Samba PDC is correctly configured, user and group administration can be done from a MS Windows client using: a) The NT4 Domain User Manager Note: Some things (like user rights and privilege management) will no longer work from a Windows 2000/2003/XPPro/Vista client using this old NT4 tool. b) The LDAP Admin tool See: http://ldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ If you follow the implementation of Samba3-ByExample, chapter 4 or 5, you will be able to use the above tools to manage your Samba network. Some things will need to be done from the CLI, that is life! I hope this answers your questions/concerns. Cheers, John T.
> I have set up several OpenSuSE 10.3 File Servers... > These are small environments, 5 - 15 workstations. > They are purely File (and possibly Application) Servers.... > All are AMD64. > Since the Servers only purpose in life is to support Samba. > 1.) Is there a platform Linux/Unix, where Samba is better supported...?No. I run Samba on CentOS, RHEL, SLES, & openSUSE. The distribution makes almost no difference at all. Samba is Samba, like most LINUX/UNIX services it is the same code regardless on what OS or distribution-of-OS you run it on. You can switch around but you won't notice any difference (including performance, despite what "lite" distributions claim) unless someone screwed something up rather badly.> 2.) Does Samba utilize a 64 bit environment, or is it better to > install 32 bit for compatibility..? > A GUI is nice, I can get around in the CLI, but by no means am I proficient.Then stick with openSUSE / SLES as YaST is the only remotely complete system management interface available. Most of my production servers are CentOS (entirely for political reasons - enterprise LINUX in the USA == RedHat, at least in the minds of 99% of vendors) and I *really* miss YaST when I have to grouse around to find some stupid file to change some trivial setting. I've been a UNIX admin for 15 years; the state of system management in the UNIX world is ridiculous with the exception of SUSE - the guys at Novell "get it".> Performance Technology Systems Design > "Never Promise more than you can deliver... > Always Deliver more than you promise.."