Hi Rod.

15-Jun-04 13:56:51, Rod Gasson wrote to All


 RG> GMT From: "Rod Gasson" 

 RG> "David Drummond"
 wrote
 RG> in message news:1087280777{at}f305.n640.z3.ftn...
 >> G'day Rod
 RG> >
 >> 14 Jun 04 22:55, Rod Gasson wrote to All:
 RG> >
 >> >> Everyone tells me that Samba is fabulous,
 RG> >
 RG>> Fuck, I've never heard anyone call Samba Fabulous before. It is
 RG>> probably the most complex, difficult to configure and unreliable
 RG> peice of
 RG>> network/fileshare software that I've had the misfortune to use.
 RG> >
 >> Go on, it isn't that bad.

 RG> Compared to NFS shares it IS that bad.

 >> It's certainly not fabulous,

 RG> So far, from the few replies in this thread, it seems rather
 RG> unanimous that none of us feel that Samba is fabulous -  Which
 RG> really makes me wonder who Bob has been talking too.

 >> but it works OK...

 RG> I have to amend that to "It works OK, when it works" ;-)

 RG>> Unfortunetly it is also about the only means of filesharing
 RG>> between Linux and Windows available, as such, we just learn to
 RG>> live with it.
 RG> >
 >> FTP?

 RG> FTP is OK, but it doesn't have the same drag 'n' drop from the
 RG> desktop usability that the SMB shares have.

 RG> Example, we have all of our MP3 files stored in a directory on one
 RG> of our Linux boxes. We share this directory using NFS shares with
 RG> our other linux boxes, as well as SMB shares for the windoze
 RG> boxes.  This way we can play these MP3 files using any media
 RG> player on any of our machines (Windoze or Linux).  This wouldn't
 RG> be possible if FTP was our only option as we'd need to FTP the
 RG> files from the linux box to the windoze box before we could play
 RG> them.

so share 'em with HTTP :)

 -=> Bye <=-

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