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   You can ask Paul about specifics of problems he encountered.  Nothing =
you mention below absolves the samba folks of any responsibility for =
problems with usability of samba.

Rich

  "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message =
news:3de1ea9d{at}w3.nls.net...
  That's in part because Samba most often runs on multiuser systems. =
Getting Samba to the level of sharing everyone's home dir's is the =
default setting (on most linux'es I've known) & there's a bunch of GUIs
= tool to help share other folders (e.g. SWAT). Yes you have to know if =
you've got a PDC & you want that to do authentication etc. Maybe it's =
coz I've been running smb on linux for a long while now but it isn't = that
hard on say Mandrake 9. Certainly in terms of being an SMB client = using
something like LinNeighborhood makes SMB Client stuff easy.=20

  Adam

    "Rich"  wrote in message news:3de14c38$1{at}w3.nls.net...
       More FUD and lies Mike.  How would you know what you claim =
(overlooking that it is false)?

       If the Samba folks can't make their stuff work as easily as =
Windows (or even MS-DOS) why can't you acknowldge that they have only =
themselves to blame?

    Rich

      "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message =
news:kd22uu8f27rhlglqnsim48smlf1k6jdvhi{at}4ax.com...
      On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 12:37:35 -0500, "Robert Comer"
       wrote:

      >> Why doesn't it 'just work'?
      >
      >Good question.


      Because Windows networking is a tangle of proprietary protocols,
      half-baked code, and gawd-awful spaghetti code.   The Samba team =
is
      one of the folk trying to get Microsoft to open up their =
protocols.

      Bottom line: Micorosft does not want Samba to "just work".

       /m

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   You can
ask Paul about =
specifics of=20
problems he encountered.  Nothing you mention below absolves the = samba=20
folks of any responsibility for problems with usability of =
samba.
 
Rich
 

  "Adam Flinton" <adam{at}NOSPAMsoftfab.com>">mailto:adam{at}NOSPAMsoftfab.com">adam{at}NOSPAMsoftfab.com>
=
wrote in=20
  message news:3de1ea9d{at}w3.nls.net...
  That's in part because Samba most =
often runs on=20
  multiuser systems. Getting Samba to the level of sharing everyone's =
home dir's=20
  is the default setting (on most linux'es I've known) & there's a =
bunch of=20
  GUIs tool to help share other folders (e.g. SWAT). Yes you have to =
know if=20
  you've got a PDC & you want that to do authentication etc. Maybe =
it's coz=20
  I've been running smb on linux for a long while now but it isn't that =
hard on=20
  say Mandrake 9. Certainly in terms of being an SMB client using =
something like=20
  LinNeighborhood makes SMB Client stuff easy. 
   
  Adam
   
  

    "Rich" <{at}> wrote in message news:3de14c38$1{at}w3.nls.net...
       More
FUD and lies =
Mike.  How=20
    would you know what you claim (overlooking that it is =
false)?
     
       If
the Samba folks =
can't make=20
    their stuff work as easily as Windows (or even MS-DOS) why can't you =

    acknowldge that they have only themselves to blame?
     
    Rich
     
    
      "Mike '/m'" <mike{at}barkto.com>">mailto:mike{at}barkto.com">mike{at}barkto.com>
wrote in =
message news:kd22uu8f27r=
hlglqnsim48smlf1k6jdvhi{at}4ax.com...On=20
      Sat, 23 Nov 2002 12:37:35 -0500, "Robert
Comer"<bobcomer{at}mindspring.com>=20">mailto:bobcomer{at}mindspring.com">bobcomer{at}mindspring.com>=20
      wrote:>> Why doesn't it 'just =
work'?>>Good=20
      question.Because Windows networking is
a tangle of =
proprietary=20
      protocols,half-baked code, and gawd-awful spaghetti =
code.  =20
      The Samba team isone of the folk trying to get Microsoft to =
open up=20
      their protocols.Bottom line: Micorosft does not
want Samba =
to=20
      "just=20
work". /m<=
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