On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I find that Ubuntu has an astounding number of documentation pages on > various wikis that are often out of date, do not track the upstream > packagers and sometimes add to the confusion of the users and while it > may work for some, it also fails and sometimes fails miserably for > others. > > Samba itself is an extremely complicated package because it is so > versatile. It operates both as a server and as a client, emulates > methods/protocols from Windows 98 through Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista > and now Windows 7. It offers a variety of authentication systems whether > local, LDAP, an AD server etc. As a Samba team member, it seems foolish > for any distribution to put into place a customized smb.conf on each > install but again, each distribution is certainly free to do as they see > fit. > If Ballmer/Gates, Inc. could have found a way to do it, samba wouldn't work at all. No complaints to the samba team, which has done great things. As to documentation, I can't even imagine how most of the world deals with any of it. I no longer use the official documentation or the built-in "help" button for *anything*. The "help" button is google plus some smarts about searching. I suspect that computer documentation is now actually viral (person-to-person within communities), and that my old-fashioned need to rely on anything but a friend to show me how to do it is a measure of how isolated I am. Robert. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
