On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 12:55 -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 08:19:43PM -0400, Robert Edmonds wrote: > > > Package: samba > > > Version: 3.0.24-6etch4 > > > Severity: wishlist > > > > > nmbd is not always necessary; for instance in a non-Windows environment > > > with working name resolution. It would be nice if the samba init script > > > supported only starting the smbd daemon. > > > > If you have a non-Windows environment, use a better protocol. :) > > > > Such as? NFS has at least as many downsides as CIFS (for which this > space is too small to enumerate); e.g., samba runs in userspace and > supports "unix extensions" which are only comparable to the kernel-only > NFSv4 daemon.
As a team, we support the use of Samba as an NFS replacement. This is an explicit design goal of the CIFS unix extensions. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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