On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 00:15 -0400, Robert Myers wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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@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. > > ---- > > 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- 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
