RE: Storing photos - I'm looking for advice.

Posted in 2003

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Thomas Mieslinger — Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:47:16 +0100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

I won't be too optimistic using samba. It has problems on some Platforms (older Solaris, etc) and if you plan a really distributed application (i e use this application from 60 branches or so) you would have to route all smb traffic to your Samba server. Large installation have problems with very long smbpasswd files (a university has a smbpasswd file with over 20000 records) and that doesn't work at all. You have to care about space in two place: in a filesystem and in the database. greetings thomas -- General Logistics Systems Thomas Mieslinger German-Parcel-Str. 1-7 fon: +49 6677 17 463 36286 Neuenstein fax: +49 6677 17 111 Germany eMail: thomas.mieslinger@gls-germany.com "Colin Bull" <c.bull@videonetworks.com> Gesendet von: owner-informix-list@iiug.org 21.11.2003 12:49 Bitte antworten an c.bull An: <informix-list@iiug.org> Kopie: Thema: RE: Storing photos - I'm looking for advice. Andrew Hamm wrote > > Yup - modern Samba versions are very stable and powerful. > I've just spent a > few days on a customer site using a very old Samba, and it's > .. ummm ... > interesting? to see the improvements made over the years. > > Anyway, Samba is a great open source product and probably should be > installed as a matter of course on every new UNIX build. I was using it about 4 years ago with SCO Openserver 5.0.2 and never had any problems. There was an interesting thread on their user group, where a consultant was suporting a client with over 10k users was having problems with it. The consultant worked for MS. Colin Bull c.bull@videonetworks.com sending to informix-list sending to informix-list

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Andrew Hamm — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 11:36:20 +1100 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Thomas Mieslinger wrote: > I won't be too optimistic using samba. It has problems on some > Platforms (older Solaris, etc) and if you plan a really distributed Funny you should mention that - it was a Sun box from '98 or there-abouts :-) I guess it might suffer from some platform specific issues, but on all the platforms i'm regularly using it on, it's extremely stable. Shouldn't that 20,000 user University be looking at LDAP or NT authentication or something? Or one of them 20,000 students should perhaps put in a bit of effort to plug in optimised routines for the user lookup on large sites.... after all, it is open source. Anyone can fix it or make it even better.