Thinking about a move to Samba? Transitions can be frightening, but good ones are never forgotten. Consider the following testimonials.

Hannu Tikka writes:

In october 2003, Raahe Business College migrated from Novell NetWare 5.1 to Samba 3. Migration was quite smooth, of course at the start there were a few issues, partly with the Samba version at that time, but mainly they were about administrators limited knowledge about windows domain environment. Our environment is ~200 w2k workstations, ~400 users with roaming profiles, PDC and BDC samba-servers with replicated OpenLDAP backend.

We have moved to linux-servers with small steps. Starting with web services at 2000, a year after that mail services and finally the Samba migration. All the time we have been using linux systems the main impression has been excellent reliability, performance and flexibility. Now we have been running our samba-system without any problems for months and we are very satisfied and amazed for the work of the Samba Team.

Also, Ernesto Arturo Valderrama Blum from CIAT, a small engineering center in Queretaro, Mexico had good things to say about his experiences with a Samba migration. He writes:

When we started, we chose Linux and Samba, because we had a very small budget. We had around 10,000 US for all our IT specific needs (hardware and software). After buying our network switches, we had zero money left.

We didn't have enough money for a Windows server, so we used Linux Redhat 5.2 Cartman and Samba 1.8 or 2.1 (I don't remember which) to serve 50 HPUX workstations and 20 PCs.

We quickly discovered how easily Samba is configured to suit our needs, and its stability. Now we have around 30 Linux servers, most of them with Samba, serving 600 machines. One of our most heavily used servers has 383 days up and running continuously, interrupting the Samba service nly briefly when we upgrade samba.

I'm very grateful to the Samba Team for these 5 years I have been using Samba. I don't know how things could have been if we hadn't chosen Samba 5 years ago, but I know we are where we are now in part because of you.

And we're just glad people continue to have such success using Samba. Thanks, Hannu and Ernesto, for sharing your stories.

If you have a testimonial about your experience with Samba, please go to our story submission form and let us hear from you.