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And this another reason Linux is light years away from a wide spread acceptance as desktop OS.
There are many reasons but the biggest one is open source coders and users have only recently started caring about it getting market acceptance. Microsoft is a company, and as such it needs market acceptance.
I use Linux and BSD all the time in my business on servers, firewalls, VPN's, etc. I DO NOT try to get clients to use it on their desktops and doubt I ever will.
Those Samba tips are fine for general things. You can't keep it that simple for every deployment though.
I use Linux and BSD all the time in my business on servers, firewalls, VPN's, etc. I DO NOT try to get clients to use it on their desktops and doubt I ever will.
Those Samba tips are fine for general things. You can't keep it that simple for every deployment though.
Its purpose is to connect various desktop OS's to Linux/Unix server. It does this with great reliability and for the IT pro is not too hard to set up. for someone in the "TRADE" if they can't work their way through a samba set up they possibly have chosen the wrong career.
There are many advantages to using Linux servers over windows servers both in cost and performance and it is not that difficult to learn how to connect windows desktops to a Linux server, most of what's required can be easily picked up with a bit of googling.
I myself prefer to directly edit the samba configuration file, as you can see from the example given in the article this is simple enough.
There are many advantages to using Linux servers over windows servers both in cost and performance and it is not that difficult to learn how to connect windows desktops to a Linux server, most of what's required can be easily picked up with a bit of googling.
I myself prefer to directly edit the samba configuration file, as you can see from the example given in the article this is simple enough.
ever since I shut down the W2K server. I just moved the drives to linux, mounted them, and recreated the shares.
Windows works just fine with Samba; the users don't even know what the shares are not coming from a Win server.
Windows works just fine with Samba; the users don't even know what the shares are not coming from a Win server.
You can't have include directives in your config though...at least last time I installed it.
I put it on servers clients will be administering as long as there are no unusual setups (i.e. username to ip authentication, etc)
I put it on servers clients will be administering as long as there are no unusual setups (i.e. username to ip authentication, etc)
I started with Draketools and Mandriva back in the day. Webmin is good for doing the config work though and removes the need for an X install. The config file is also pretty strait forward so these days it's direct to text more often than through a tool.
With #9, I'd suggest looking at how the connection is handled. I had trouble with perminent mounts getting disconnected then not reconnecting. The solution was smb4s within a GUI or an auto-mount tool outside of GUI so that I'd get an ad-hoc connection when entering the mount directory.
With #9, I'd suggest looking at how the connection is handled. I had trouble with perminent mounts getting disconnected then not reconnecting. The solution was smb4s within a GUI or an auto-mount tool outside of GUI so that I'd get an ad-hoc connection when entering the mount directory.
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