RE: alternative to samba
- From: April Wells <AWells@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:51:31 -0600
Ironically, we have a cost cutting initiative going on right now...
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April Wells
Oracle DBA/Oracle Apps DBA
Corporate Systems
Amarillo Texas
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Eskridge [mailto:bryny@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:01 PM
To: April Wells
Subject: Re: alternative to samba
A> Okay, don't shoot the messenger, I think the question is kind of silly
A> myself, but I have been directed to ask.
A> As Samba is open source, and we don't know (if it breaks) who we will be
A> able to get to support the product. AND, is there an alternative that is
A> for sale from a company that accomplishes the same thing (allowing for
the
A> mapping of a drive from a windows machine to a Unix machine, primarily)
that
A> we can pay money for...
Instead of Unix doing CIFS you could have Windows doing NFS and have a
Microsoft solution with their Services for Unix (SFU).
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/2/5f26ad97-ace1-4454-975c-bca19db
d61d1/sfu35intro.doc
I haven't used it myself since I think open source support is superior
to Microsoft support, but their documents say it would work.
And I won't shoot the messenger, sounds like the company is perfectly
capable of shooting themselves.
-rje
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