Jaunty open for development

[Jim Legget]

As a very interested user of UBUNTU, I found the ability to easily network 
Linux and Windows machines is absent.
I have a LAN with 9 machines consisting of a mixture of UBUNTU Linux and 
Windows Vista / XP operating systems.
I have found there is too much hand editing of configuration files such as 
NSSWITCH.CONF, SMB.CONF and others to make it worthwhile. I haven't found a 
good 'Wizard' that is foolproof and easy to use in setting up a combined 
network. There are also many programs that do very similar things. 
Instructions are often lacking, for instance, in the SAMBA setup; the 
reference to EVERYBODY.. is EVERYBODY allowed or is EVERYBODY blocked? 
Sharing of periphials is also a problem.
The answers to questions such as these are not always easy to find.
I believe a release that focuses on these problems is due.
Which OS to use?  Sorry to say, problems such as these has  turned me off 
until a easy solution is at hand. At that time, I will use UBUNTU as a major 
OS.. It is just a plaything, a curiosity,  for me now.
You folks are doing a great job. I love the system save for the networking 
setup problem.


Jim Legget
Yakima, WA





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin Watson" <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>
To: <ubuntu-devel-announce at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:05 PM
Subject: Jaunty open for development


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