[plug] win2003 server vs Samba ?

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 15:08, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 07:08 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> > Anyone know of any benchmarks for current performance differences?
> > It would be really nice if they were at least slightly non biased.. 
> 
> I don't think there's any such thing as a good answer to that. There
> have been so many "studies" and they've produced different results
> depending on hardware choices, OS configuration, etc etc etc.
> 
> To me, the upshot of that is that I consider performance not to be
> useful for decision making. I'd be more inclined to focus on
> reliability, how easy they are to manage, whether each does what you
> need to do, etc.

If you can upgrade to a domain controller with a simple edit of a config
file and restarting the service or if you have to run some utility put
together with bits of string that takes the best part of the morning to
finish.

regards,

Chris