On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 20:29 -0400, Robert Myers wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:17 PM, linux guy <linuxguy123(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> > Surely its not that hard to get Samba going.
> >
> > If it wasn't worth the effort, how else did you enable file sharing on a
> > mixed client network ?
> >
> > Has anyone gotten Samba working from a virgin F15 install ?
> >
>
> If you want it to work out of the box, move to Ubuntu.
>
> NFS, ssh, sftp can all be made to work using Cygwin. We just finished
> a thread on that. There are lots better choices than using SMB, which
> is notably vulnerable to hacking. I've got every damn thing
> imaginable sharing every which way, and I don't touch Samba. I used
> to be an expert. Got tired of fiddling. My advice: get Microsoft out
> of the loop.
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sure take samba advice from someone who 'doesn't touch samba' - makes
sense to me.
How many versions of samba and windows you been through? I been
through a lot. Go back a few years and see if you can make sense of
old documentation. How-to's are great. They have a shelf-life of
about six months.
Robert.