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Sorry to burst your bubble, but Google and IBM are both Samba users. As is Nutanix, Panzura and a whole host of on-prem -> Cloud gateway companies. You have a

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Google and IBM are both Samba users. As is Nutanix, Panzura and a whole host of on-prem -> Cloud gateway companies. You have a strange definition of poor :-).

jra_samba 7y ago
Following up to myself (bad habit I know :-) here are the Samba related talks at the upcoming 2019 Storage Developer Conference at Santa Clara (full disclosure, one of them is mine in conjunction with Steve French from Microsoft). https://sniasdc19.pathable.com/meetings?query=samba&with[labels.id][]=110635&classes[]=Groups%3A%3AMeetings%3A%3AMeeting https://sniasdc19.pathable.com/meetings?query=samba&with[lab... If Samba is terrible and only used by poor people, why are there so many Samba related talks at SDC ?
noinsight 7y ago
Do you mean for file sharing or as a directory server? File sharing I can definitely understand but I'm more skeptical about the directory server functionality. Big companies have the resources to do many weird things but it would still strike me as odd to be running Samba DS in production. How far along is the directory server these days in terms of stability and features?
- jra_samba 7y ago
  The AD-DC works pretty well these days, and has been adopted as a standard solution by a major European government (what helps is a local vendor committing to support the solution). There are also some large cloud-based companies using it (and I mean other than the Amazon "Simple AD" solution that they never really promoted much - my suspicion was they did that to get a better price from Microsoft :-). Hang out on the samba-technical@lists.samba.org list and you'll find around 70-80% of the questions are from Samba-AD-DC users - the fileserver is considered a somewhat solved problem these days. Look at the email domains to get an idea of who is using it and for what.
- bertjk 7y ago
  Hmm what is the modern file sharing thing that we are supposed to use that is not Samba? if I wanted to share some directories on my LAN that can be browsed/read/written to by non-technical users without extra software what is the right thing to use these days?
  - jra_samba 7y ago
    Why are you not supposed to use Samba ? Samba works great as an SMB 2/3+ file server. Both Mac's and Windows use SMB3 as their native file sharing protocol, and Microsoft employ the cifsfs (SMB3+) linux kernel client maintainer. It's just easier to keep using SMB3 :-).
- yellowapple 7y ago
  I actually did deploy a Samba-only AD domain for a warehouse at my current company (for which I was the sole IT tech at the time). Worked pretty reliably for our purposes, and now (a year-ish later) I'm prepping to expand that to the other warehouses. Our uses for it ain't really all that significant, though; it's mostly for user management (and only for some things, like desktop logins, SMB shares, and our client VPN auth).
- amaccuish 7y ago
  Samba is working great for me. Several DCs, extended the schema for various different uses (storing TOTP seeds, Kopano mail attributes). Only thing that would make life easier is DFS-R for sysvol and WMI for 2012+ DCs. Used to be a nightmare but since about 4.3+ it's worked flawlessly.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Google and IBM are both Samba users. As is Nutanix, Panzura and a whole host of on-prem -> Cloud gateway companies. You have a strange definition of poor :-).

jra_samba 7y ago

Following up to myself (bad habit I know :-) here are the Samba related talks at the upcoming 2019 Storage Developer Conference at Santa Clara (full disclosure, one of them is mine in conjunction with Steve French from Microsoft). https://sniasdc19.pathable.com/meetings?query=samba&with[labels.id][]=110635&classes[]=Groups%3A%3AMeetings%3A%3AMeeting https://sniasdc19.pathable.com/meetings?query=samba&with[lab... If Samba is terrible and only used by poor people, why are there so many Samba related talks at SDC ?

noinsight 7y ago

Do you mean for file sharing or as a directory server? File sharing I can definitely understand but I'm more skeptical about the directory server functionality. Big companies have the resources to do many weird things but it would still strike me as odd to be running Samba DS in production. How far along is the directory server these days in terms of stability and features?

jra_samba 7y ago
The AD-DC works pretty well these days, and has been adopted as a standard solution by a major European government (what helps is a local vendor committing to support the solution). There are also some large cloud-based companies using it (and I mean other than the Amazon "Simple AD" solution that they never really promoted much - my suspicion was they did that to get a better price from Microsoft :-). Hang out on the samba-technical@lists.samba.org list and you'll find around 70-80% of the questions are from Samba-AD-DC users - the fileserver is considered a somewhat solved problem these days. Look at the email domains to get an idea of who is using it and for what.
bertjk 7y ago
Hmm what is the modern file sharing thing that we are supposed to use that is not Samba? if I wanted to share some directories on my LAN that can be browsed/read/written to by non-technical users without extra software what is the right thing to use these days?
- jra_samba 7y ago
  Why are you not supposed to use Samba ? Samba works great as an SMB 2/3+ file server. Both Mac's and Windows use SMB3 as their native file sharing protocol, and Microsoft employ the cifsfs (SMB3+) linux kernel client maintainer. It's just easier to keep using SMB3 :-).
yellowapple 7y ago
I actually did deploy a Samba-only AD domain for a warehouse at my current company (for which I was the sole IT tech at the time). Worked pretty reliably for our purposes, and now (a year-ish later) I'm prepping to expand that to the other warehouses. Our uses for it ain't really all that significant, though; it's mostly for user management (and only for some things, like desktop logins, SMB shares, and our client VPN auth).
amaccuish 7y ago
Samba is working great for me. Several DCs, extended the schema for various different uses (storing TOTP seeds, Kopano mail attributes). Only thing that would make life easier is DFS-R for sysvol and WMI for 2012+ DCs. Used to be a nightmare but since about 4.3+ it's worked flawlessly.