Samba, from f#$kdora to Ubuntu

Matthew Momjian matthew at momjian.us
Sat Oct 20 21:53:17 UTC 2007


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Res wrote:
> Hey All,
> 
> With regards to desktop use, I'm a very long time RH/fedora user, but 
> those familiar with it will know all about the BS politics they play and 
> the lack of (IMHO) proper QA, having heard good things about Ubuntu I 
> installed 7.10 in a vmware session, I'm very impressed :)
> 
> I can do everything out of the box (well everything once I enable a 
> certain non-free repo which took all of 2 Min's reading Google), 
> however the only thing not operational on it that my desktop needs is 
> Samba server as I have some dirs I need to share with my winblows weenie 
> housemates, I've always been one to use the Samba tarball, but I thought,
> well trying a new distro maybe I should try theirs, however the help 
> forum says apt-get install samba, there is no such thing, it's broken into 
> client and common according to apt-get, and can't locate the -server 
> option, do I need to be slapped or is it just not there?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
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