Sorry but you CAN do awk, grep, perl, ssh, etc on windows. Sure much of that may not be included with the base OS install media but all the packages and software I want on a linux system isn't always there either. I don't know what the status is of the latest features of Samba are but full AD capabilities, group policies, RO-domain controllers, etc are some very useful and sometimes required features that are lacking in Samba/linux That being said I wish the functionality/spec was opened up by MS but that is not their way of course. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> Sender: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:08:55 To: TCLUG Mailing List<tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Reply-To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Linux to Windows file server migration - ouch! On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote: > If Samba is doing AD integrated authentication to a domain controller > that isn't on your local subnet this can also cause Samba to be > dreadfully slow, even with full Kerberos authentication working on the > Windows client and Linux server. Whatever Windows does differently in > this situation works. Based on how AD was structured when I worked at > the U my guess is this could be the culprit. I was never able to find a > fix other than get a local DC or move to a Windows file server. Samba on > Mac OSX has the same issue. Thanks for that idea. I'll see what I can find out. > I don't see it as a step in either direction. A properly administrated > Windows server works as well as a properly administrated Linux server. I don't agree. Linux allows us to do a gazillion things we can't do on Windows: ssh, sshfs, grep, awk, perl, etc. So far we can't get anything to work with Windows. The fake case-insensitivity of the Windows file system also causes problems. Linux can easily run for a year without a reboot, but I haven't seen a Windows box that can do that. In fact, I can't think of a single reason to prefer a Windows server to a Linux server except that it seems to be faster at serving files to a Windows client. What I want to do is fix that on the Linux server. Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list