I believe with the right approach, Linux can take a great chunk of the market; you just have to give the market what it needs and wants, while allaying its fears.

What's needed is a true Linux SMB Edition, targeting specifically the needs and fears of those businesses that are using Windows -- especially those that are still using Windows 2000, which is going to lose support in 2010. It should run using low resources, thus giving a better performance than Windows on the same hardware...

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written by CoderMan, June 26, 2009

Are there any easy-to-use GUI interfaces for the samba server? If we could make Active Directory and network shares easy to setup/maintain on a Linux box, I can't imagine why anyone would still want to use Windows Server.

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written by Magnus, July 02, 2009

http://ebox-platform.com/ does the trick.

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