Tim: >> I've always found dealing with Samba's shenanigans much more effort >> than configuring Windows to .... Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: > I have never used SAMBA....but I've always been told (by Windows > admins no less!...LOL!) that it was the easiest thing in the world to > use....is it not so?.... Probably easier to manage than what they're used to doing (Windows making you juggle straight razors, without handles, soaked in petrol, above a naked flame). While it wasn't too hard (using Samba) to share in one direction, it was a nuisance to have to add users on each client (because Samba handled users separately than the system), and the mucking around that was needed to configure printer drivers to run a printer through it... Everything about printing on Windows was a pain in the arse. Each client needed the printer set up on, and drivers configured on each client. Compared to Linux just needing the printer set up on the computer it was attached to, and all the clients sending standard printer data to the CUPS server that was automatically found by all the clients. Samba may have improved since then, but the mentality of it was all wrong (done in the Windows mindset). Don't drag Linux down to their level. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.8.13-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 13 13:36:17 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
