[BBLISA] Chucking samba

[Internaut at Large]

Greetings,

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 16:40 -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
> > Behalf Of Dean Anderson
> > 
> > I've used AFS since the 1980s.  The OpenAFS Windows client is very
> > stable, and uses a loopback adapter, which insulates the AFS client

> Although I know this is unrelated, I do have one parallel experience, which
> I do allow to shape my current behavior and opinions:  There was a time
> where I installed some Ext3 plugin for windows, obviously to access external
> Linux formatted disks.  Everything was fine for ... I don't know ... 3
> months I guess.  Then one day my system started blue-screening regularly
> (once or twice a day) and I banged my head up and down figuring out where my
> hardware failure was.  As a last-ditch effort, I ghosted my system,
> reinstalled windows, and it became stable again.  Thus eliminating hardware
> as the source of the problem.  So then I went back to my ghost image, and
> painstakingly removed everything, one by one.  As you might have guessed, MS
> released some software update, which suddenly made the Ext3 plugin unstable.
> Cuz obviously that's a 3rd party add-on which is pretty deep down ... not
> necessarily in kernel space, but certainly lower than the typical user app.

And, this is yet another reason why I will _NEVER_ recommend using
Windows software as a server in a production environment.  Especially
not if I'm serving other machines besides just Windows.  But that's just
me.

-dkap