Samba on Ubuntu - is it really this difficult?

[Andy]

Hi

Andy A wrote:

> Aargh!  Why is Samba so hideously difficult to set up on Ubuntu?  Did
> I not read somewhere Ubuntu it is meant to be 'user friendly'?

Not a full response to your problems, but if you just want to access
files on another Samba or Windows box, you could try installing smbfs
and then mounting the shares with smbmount. That's my normal way of
doing it on any Linux box and it's worked fine for me on ubuntu (just 
remember to set smbmnt and smbumount setuid root if you want to be able 
to mount and unmount as user).

Cheers

Andy