Re: A question about Samba in Feisty.

On 2/28/07, NoOp <glgxg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 02/27/2007 03:40 AM, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Gabriel Dragffy <dragffy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I haven't tried using Samba in Feisty, is Samba works now without
>> > running smbpasswd for certain users? can Windows easily connect to a
>> > Samba share? And does printer sharing "just works" in Feisty?
>> >
>> > I really need to know if Samba will fit right, or we're going to use
>> > FTP. It would be used in over 300+ campuses.
>> >
>> > Joel
>> > --
>> > Stay away from Piracy, use Open Source.
>> >
>>
>> I'm using samba in feisty, you will still need to run smbpasswd, but
>> that's a piece of cake. My one is sharing a printer also, under
>> [printers] I only had to change one thing; and it was to add this line:
>>
>> use client driver = yes
>>
>> So it pretty much works out of the box ;)
>>
>
> I'm asking this because Samba in Edgy doesn't work well as it should be
in
> the
> people who use it. Due to disappointments we receive from the admins who
set
> it up, we're looking for alternatives, currently FTP and Multicast
> Filesharing is what we have.
>
>

Have a look here:
http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu:Edgy#Samba_Server
and

http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu:Edgy#Samba_Web_Administration_Tool_.28SWAT.29

Perhaps you they are just setting it up incorrectly?


I'm am sure they are setting things up incorrectly,
It's harder to talk to those admins than to setup things correctly,
What can I do, they "Know it All".

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