A question about Samba in Feisty.

[NoOp]

On 02/27/2007 03:40 AM, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
>>
>> Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> >   I haven't tried using Samba in Feisty, is Samba works now without
>> > running smbpasswd for certain users? can Windows easily connect to a
>> > Samba share? And does printer sharing "just works" in Feisty?
>> >
>> > I really need to know if Samba will fit right, or we're going to use
>> > FTP. It would be used in over 300+ campuses.
>> >
>> > Joel
>> > --
>> > Stay away from Piracy, use Open Source.
>> >
>>
>> I'm using samba in feisty, you will still need to run smbpasswd, but
>> that's a piece of cake. My one is sharing a printer also, under
>> [printers] I only had to change one thing; and it was to add this line:
>>
>> use client driver = yes
>>
>> So it pretty much works out of the box ;)
>>
> 
> I'm asking this because Samba in Edgy doesn't work well as it should be in
> the
> people who use it. Due to disappointments we receive from the admins who set
> it up, we're looking for alternatives, currently FTP and Multicast
> Filesharing is what we have.
> 
> 

Have a look here:
http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu:Edgy#Samba_Server
 and
http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu:Edgy#Samba_Web_Administration_Tool_.28SWAT.29

Perhaps you they are just setting it up incorrectly?