[Gllug] Samba testimonials

[Henrik Morsing]

>
> Does anyone know of any companies using Samba in a mid size organisation?
> We're looking to migrate some 350 users from Windows file sharing to using
> Samba. However, management aren't convinced, and have asked for some
> testimonials of people already doing the same thing. In particular,
> they're concerned about our plans to authenticate against the existing
> Active Directory server. While we've tested it in a lab enviornment, and
> it works without problems, they're worried that the Active Directory
> support
> in Samba is too new, and we don't know if it'll scale properly.

I work for a 1800+ company and we are working on migrating to Samba. It
runs on Linux/390 and is being setup by IBM.
It's not really running yet but is supposed to be a fileserver but
authentication is still via NT/LDAP.

Maybe you can convince IBM to come to your company and talk about it.

Henrik Morsing
henrik at morsing.cc


-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug