A question about Samba in Feisty.

[Joel Bryan Juliano]

On 2/28/07, NoOp <glgxg at mfire.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
I'm am sure they are setting things up incorrectly,
It's harder to talk to those admins than to setup things correctly,
What can I do, they "Know it All".

-- 
Stay away from Piracy, use Open Source.
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