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  From: Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@xavier.sa.edu.au>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:05:24 +1030

Re: DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals

Simon Murcott wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Matthew Geddes wrote:
>
>    Simon, I have seen other (truly) independent tests - I think ZDNet did
>    some. They all say that Samba / Linux is up to 2.5 times better than NT at
>    it's own job. Windows NT is a little better than Samba for up to 16 users
>    and then it tends to go rapidly downhill. He He He.... I'll try and dig up

>
>    some links....
>
> Cool I could do with some ammo to aim at my fellow workmates :)
>

A little out of date, but so is NT apparently (Hooray for Windows 2000, for
it... is...... well......... the same as NT, but with IE5 and more bloat  - oh
yeah, and the "updated" (incompatible) NTFS)

http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,396321,00.html

According to this one, Samba is hard to configure and expensive to maintain. It
hasn't cost me a cent yet (it's saved me a little time and came to the rescue of
a couple of major South Australian hospitals a few times).
http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,394079,00.html

And finally, a bunch of Linux related articles. Some are good.
http://www.zdnet.com/sr/filters/linux/

Matt