Paul, I took this off-list, since I think we've gone beyond the general interests of the group. On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:50:43PM -0700, Paul Allen Newell wrote: > Given that I got four emails from you which all distill down to "try it, > it is easy" and you already provided "a piece of cake" for my initial > query, I will look at all this and see if it is worth giving it a go. Sorry, not meaning to bash you over the head with it. But I really do think you'll find it worthwhile. > All I can say is the "boring brute force scp" took me less than 10 > seconds to do what I needed tonight and I am hard-pressed to think that > elegance in handling this will come in at less than 10 seconds (or, if > it does, the price tag to do such needs to be compared against my doing > actual work on my computers). Oh, you got the copy done, absolutely it works. Now you have two copies to keep in synch (can be done with rsync--also available in CygWin, works with the native Linux rsync, and I use it to keep backups of important directories on my Win box that I need to keep there...but I digress into functionality that would follow after what we're discussing...) But wouldn't it be so much easier just to be able to go to /mnt/winboxname/docs from the Linux box, or z:\LinuxDocs on the Windows box? No duplicates, no remembering which is newest? And as I've mentioned, while I didn't find the Samba, DNS, or DHCP files hard to manage, I've been doing it for over 30 years. Instead, a very quick way to get things moving is to go get a copy of webmin (I don't believe it's in the Fedora repos, but the webmin site has a RPM that just drops in: http://www.webmin.com/download.html Once that's in place, it's much quicker to walk through the configurations using the GUI and get a working config fast. (If you want to _know_ this stuff, you can then go look at the generated config files.) My guess--you should have a running config within a half-hour of deciding to do it, including download time (assuming you have a decent Internet pipe.) > Many thanks for the encouragement! Glad to help! Especially when the solutions are there, and easy to implement. Now, I *won't* encourage you to get into LDAP... THAT's been a PitA ever since it was invented (although you will find others who'll claim "it's not that bad".) Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx 773/550.0929 -- 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
