14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Samba first-hand: 4 endorse it, 5 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“samba issues have been a thing as long I've been using OSX/macOS. Mixed windows/mac network shares have always been a PITA.”
regret · personal · fps-hero · 2026-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“abismal performance using Samba over Tailscale”
regret · personal · teekert · 2025-10-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Samba kinda works, no idea how the permissions are supposed to work, but turns out SMB is more resilient”
mixed · personal · gosub100 · 2023-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yeah using samba is just as hard on Linux. I've struggled to get AD to work correctly with older PC's.”
regret · production · xupybd · 2021-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“set up a Samba share on a 6-year-old mid-range PC ... got flawless playback on each of my troublesome media entities”
endorse · personal · scubbo · 2020-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Yes, you can, depending on the environment. I've done it in prod multiple times.”
endorse · production · arca_vorago · 2017-08-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I loved samba for their attempts to opensource it so I could at least use samba4 in prod and feel confident in it's stability”
endorse · production · arca_vorago · 2017-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Samba has serious problems with large filesystems due to the disconnect between case sensitive and case insensitive filesystems.”
regret · production · teilo · 2017-01-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We replaced all our AD servers with SAMBA4, so much more reliable and while AD/LDAP is still a nightmare of an architecture”
endorse · production · mrmondo · 2016-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've tried to get this same setup with CIFS (Samba), as well as sshfs. However, apps ... freak out with permission errors”
regret · personal · veidr · 2011-09-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Ultimately I set up samba on the server, with mapped users, and a line in fstab on the desktop.”
neutral · personal · solid_fuel · 2025-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the versions of Puppet, NTPd, Samba, and so forth that we use for all our Vagrant-ified infrastructure.”
neutral · production · manicdee · 2021-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Samba has been here for a long while and I don't think it's going anywhere.”
neutral · production · rufugee · 2012-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?