Samba does well in ZDNet comparison

[Troy Johnson <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,2196106,00.html

The Best Windows File Server: Linux!

                 By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols & Eric Carr, Sm@rt
Reseller 

                 NetBench 5.01 shows how well a network operating
                 system does at the mundane task of file serving, by
                 measuring Wintel file input/output. Natively, Linux
                 doesn't work with DOS/Windows files, but Samba, an
                 open-source Server Message Block (SMB) client and
                 server that ships with all commercial Linuxes, provides
                 that capacity. And how! 

                 You might think that Linux would operate at a
                 disadvantage here, but Linux kicks NT's butt. Only at
                 the lightest loads does NT hold any advantage over the
                 Linuxes. Once the load moves to 12 clients, all the
                 Linux platforms take commanding leads over NT. At
                 32 clients, SuSE, the weakest Linux, has more than
                 double NT's throughput, and Red Hat, the leader,
                 extends its lead to almost 250 percent of NT's
performance.