Re: [Sheflug] Samba

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter

> It's running quite happily on my box, without any particular effort
> on my part. I'm using it to share my Linux printers with an XP
> installation in VMware on the same box. No problems. Perhaps Gentoo
> is better at its default values than your distro?

Yes.  Lesley was asking about any problems that she might run into.  
I've always found in the endless number of Samba installations that 
I've done that some distros can be relied on for something like Samba 
at all times whereas others can't.  Some others have problems with 
other applications such as Apache and then again others don't.  I've 
had long sessions with SuSE and Debian where everything was fine.  
Then some months later after another release the whole thing was up 
the creek.

Don't ask me why this happens.  According to the stuff that's out 
there on the internet to do with various projects this is supposed or 
thought not to happen.  But, it does.  I've had some really nasty 
problems with Fedora Core 6 just lately and John Southern had a bad 
session or two with RedHat enterprise edition which he found to be 
completely dire - or so he said.


-- 
Richard

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