From: "Adam Flinton" 

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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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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 their=20
  stuff work as easily as Windows (or even MS-DOS) why can't you =
acknowldge that=20
  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 "just=20
   
work". /m

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