RE: Samba

On our recent survey and in every real world customer I talk with Windows is firmly entrenched in the environment. AD, Exchange, Many Business Apps, VMware, on and on.

Are you seeing differently in the customers you visit ?

Regards,

Richard Schoen | Director of Document Management Technologies, HelpSystems
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date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:46:11 -0500
from: "Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Samba

The biggest knock on SAMBA is related to security in my view. Netserver follows IBM i security exactly. SAMBA has its own model that in my view is not as robust as Netserver.

That having been said, having SAMBA on the platform is a great addition to the already strong toolkit administrators have to utilize the resources of the POWER platform, and the SAMBA admin needs to know SAMBA not IBM i. Add in SWAT and/or WEBMIN, PHP, pick your WEB content management tools and you've about clobbered any reason for an Intel network. Remember IBM i already does LDAP so you don't even need Active Directory really. (Yea, I know AD has more than just LDAP but those tools are all on IBM i as well)

Also since the 80GB restriction on the load source for a virtualized V7R2 partition has been lifted you can virtualize servers some much easier to the size you need, and with NFS in the tool kit, now you can really lock down data if you want to. (To counter my earlier point about security)

Would I pick SAMBA over Netserver, maybe, maybe not? It depends on the customer requirements.

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Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


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