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SMB is great and Windows handles it perfectly fine (as it should), but outside of Windows is problematic because Samba is sincerely fucking terrible and the onl
by Dalewyn 3y ago
SMB is great and Windows handles it perfectly fine (as it should), but outside of Windows is problematic because Samba is sincerely fucking terrible and the only reason I can see why anyone uses it is because there's nothing better.
Seriously, I can even get my Windows 98 SE laptop to talk with the rest of my Windows machines (including Windows 11) via SMB perfectly fine. Meanwhile, Samba requires divine miracles just to get the bloody thing working for thirty seconds.
- dmz73 3y agoCounterpoint to SMB on Windows being great: SMB usually works well in a domain environment between client and server machines if they are all on the same domain. SMB often and randomly does not work between two client computers on a domain and in workgroup environment. I have to configure SSH server on Windows computers that I access often because of random inability of Windows to talk to another computer (sometimes sitting right next to it). Samba on the other hand takes some setting up but once it works, it keeps working...until the next OS/major version upgrade.
- housemusicfan 3y agoHere's some terrible, unholy advice along the lines of violating "don't cross the streams": Setup a WINS server. WINS, ancient and depreciated, and "they" say it should never be needed anymore, will act as a "cat herder" in a workgroup environment. The nice part about WINS is the server requires no configuration. You start the service and point the clients to it and that's it. Configure your DHCP server to hand out the WINS address and you're done. There's a good chance your problems may disappear.