Samba bug

[Derek Broughton]

Eamonn Sullivan wrote:

> On 22/12/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
>>
>> > On 22/12/05, Giorgos <pinkisntwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Is samba badly broken in ubuntu or what?
>> >
>> > No, but Samba remains as difficult as ever to configure correctly. The
>> > issue really is that Microsoft won't release low-level information
>> > about it's networking, which means the developers have to
>> > painstakingly reverse engineer it. Can you post your /etc/smb.conf
>> > (with some obfuscated bits, if you want)?
>>
>> It's pretty easy in KDE and I recall it being not too difficult
>> previously with SWAT, so where's the problem?
> 
> Samba to Samba is easy, Samba to Windows in share mode is easy, Samba
> to Mac is easy, but Samba to Windows XP just mysteriously fails now
> and again, especially if you're unlucky. You have to fiddle with some
> obscure items in the smb.conf. It happens. I'm just suggesting we take
> a look. Is that acceptable? I'm not attacking Samba.

I didn't think so - I was a bit concerned you might think I was attacking
Gnome :-)  Now that you mention it, I know I've heard about this XP problem
from someone else, yet it's never been a problem for me, and I do a lot of
Samba to XP pro, and vice versa.  The Kubuntu (I'm not sure it's standard
KDE) samba maintenance is pretty slick.
-- 
derek