SAMBA utilisation in Unix environment

[Former Member]

Hello,

I am currently in discussions with our IT management about the use of SAMBA to allow our Unix SAP systems to share files with other Windows based systems for file-based interfaces. There are a number of reservations about the use of 'free' software within the organisation, even though SAMBA is supported by the OS vendor (Sun in this case).

To help the case for the use of the tool, it would be nice to get some information on the other organisations that use SAMBA - can anyone help provide a list of organisations that do use it?

Thanks,

Brendan Byrne

[markus_doehr2 · Accepted solution]

Not sure how this is related to SAP but we are using SAMBA since years.

To exchange data between our SAP system and the users (e. g. file outputs of queries) our Linux servers mount via NFS a directory which is at the same time accessible from Windows clients using SAMBA.

At the time of migrating from Windows to Linux (7 years ago) we had our development and test systems on Linux and the production on Windows - we used SAMBA to share the transport directories.

Markus