Why does Samba/CIFS suck so badly. [closed]

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Published on 2010-06-18T01:22:56Z Indexed on 2010/06/18 1:33 UTC
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Seriously, machines refusing to save data because files THEY HAVE OPEN are locked BY THEMSELVES. Getting 200+ connections simultaneously takes it out despite a plethora of available disk and network bandwidth. You can't turn off CUPS you have to COMPILE WITHOUT IT. DFS support is completely broken and pretty much useless in the current state (as in DFS for load balancing, not replication).

We should just move to NFS and find a DFS like namespace aggregator.

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