Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:47:31 +0100 | From | VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN <> | Subject | Re: CIFS improvements/wider testing needed |
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Steve French wrote:
>>This makes me *really* wonder how you test your CIFS implementation. I >>would bet you use a Linux server with samba and not real Windows servers >>like Windows 2000 server or Windows 2003 server. I can perfectly >>understand that for development purpose because you can tarce the both >>side, then for validation I think using WindoWS NT (Ok Obsolete but >>still), Windows 2000 server or Windows 2003 server is mandatory.
> There are two big test events for CIFS each year (Connectathon and the > SNIA CIFS conference) in which all of the major CIFS vendors servers and > clients (including the Linux cifs client) are tested together. These > two events has been the most helpful for me every year as they are for > many others on the Samba team (lots of Samba server progress also > happens in these two weeks). That is the best opportunity (almost the > only good opportunity) for testing against EMC, NetApp, Adaptec/SNAP, > AIX FastConnect, and the other NAS vendors - and at each event a few > client bugs have been fixed or client workarounds for server bugs have > been added as a result of this testing. For weekly testing there are > of course more test environments than mine, and I get feedback from > those testing against other server versions, but I have a small test > environment at home and also one at work (there are other unrelated test > groups that test the version of cifs and Samba before distro releases) > that I regularly test against. It would be impossible for one person to > test against the breadth of servers out there so community testing, > especially against the less well known servers, is encouraged.
That is great that such "plug fest" exists and I agree with you that this is the only way to test compatibility to such scale.
> In my test environment these are tested almost daily as target servers: > > 1) Samba version 3 (current) > 2) Windows XP service pack 2
Do you have collected any statistics on Windows server market share per windows version? I would bet 2000 Server is still mainstream with 2003 slowly replacing NT4 in term of percentage now that support is stopped.
Idealy, may I suggest that dayly testing platforms, should match this real life Winddows server platform distribution.
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