On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 00:15 -0400, Robert Myers wrote:
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.
> ----
> 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.
----
I have the Official Samba 3 HowTo dated 2003 here on my bookshelf. Yes,
there has been 2 updates to it but they are incremental and not
monumental changes. That's like 6 months X 16
I have been running Samba since about 2.2.7 (about 2000) as a Windows
Domain controller. I'm still a samba team member and the editor of
wiki.samba.org
Craig
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