On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:17 PM, linux guy <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> 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. 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