Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!psuvax1! uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!ub!galileo.cc.rochester.edu! sun-valley.prevmed.rochester.edu!bigenwal From: bigen...@sun-valley.prevmed.rochester.edu (Chris Bigenwald) Subject: Why samba? Message-ID: <1995Jan13.214923.13930@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Sender: n...@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: sun-valley.prevmed.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester Date: Fri, 13 Jan 95 21:49:23 GMT Lines: 6 What are the advantages/disadvantages of running samba on a Unix box (Sun) vs. a dedicated WFW PC (Pentium)? Clients are all WFW PC's. - Chris
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!yale!gumby!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu! gatech!swrinde!pipex!uknet!info!iialan From: iia...@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: Why samba? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: iifeak.swan.ac.uk Message-ID: < D2yo2C.I83@info.swan.ac.uk> Sender: n...@info.swan.ac.uk Organization: Institute For Industrial Information Technology References: <1995Jan13.214923.13930@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <3fguik$4r1@nova.voicenet.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 12:30:11 GMT Lines: 21 In article <3fguik$...@nova.voicenet.com> mainl...@omni.voicenet.com (William Smargiassi) writes: >bigen...@sun-valley.prevmed.rochester.edu (Chris Bigenwald) wrote: >>What are the advantages/disadvantages of running samba on a >>Unix box (Sun) vs. a dedicated WFW PC (Pentium)? >WfW isn't capable of any heavy-duty server duties. (I've heard...) You'd be much >happier with NT's server version (I've heard...) or Samba because of speed. WfW has to run under Windows/DOS so its fighting things like non-reentrant BIOS and co-operative multitasking not designed for the job. Both Unix and NT systems have efficient software disk caches, disk scheduling, the ability to do a disk I/O and run things at the same time.. etc,etc So yes it makes a big difference. But then nobody even presumes to sell W4WG as a serious server. File sharing yes... Alan -- ..-----------,,----------------------------,,----------------------------,, // Alan Cox // iia...@www.linux.org.uk // GW4PTS@GB7SWN.#45.GBR.EU // ``----------'`--[Anti Kibozing Signature]-'`----------------------------'' One two three: Kibo, Lawyer, Refugee :: Green card, Compaq come read me...