Re: Samba

From: Jeffrey Silverman (jeffrey_at_jhu.edu)
Date: 08/07/03 

Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:42:54 -0400

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 10:46:24 +0000, reh wrote:

> Mark Jones wrote:
>
>> Robert
>> What I mean by #1 is that when using Windows explorer to browse my Linux
>> PC all I can see is tha contents of my share on the windows PC!! not the
>> share on the Linux PC. very weird. Its as if the Linuxpc is mirrorring
>> my share on the WIndows box. Most of my changes were made either logged
>> on as root or via root from my user on Linux, therefore I would guess
>> that the changes are universal. I think the only thing for it is to
>> reinstal the whole lot. Another point is that Appache was wroking
>> correctly in that I could browse the documentation as a web page from my
>> Wpc now I can only get the Appache test page on either machine. Both
>> show page not found when I click on the documentation link.
>>
>> I am very grateful to you for taking the trouble to reply. With so many
>> nebies around it must be frustrating.
>>
>> Regards
>> Mark
>>
>>
> Its not uncommon to reinstall a distro a couple of time to the hang of it.
> I think you should get the box working correctly. If adding a new/using
> user didn't help with your previous problems, I think you should
> reinstall. Sorry for my suggestion, but we could beat this to death
> locating the problem(s). Unless someone else had experienced the same or
> you want to track it down yourself. Anyway, either way, its also good
> learning experience.
<snip!>

Reinstall the whole OS just to fix Samba problems?? Seems like overkill
to me. And I thought one of the benefits of Linux (vs., say, that *other*
OS) is that you *don't* have to reinstall to fix problems like this!

I think a *far* better learning experience would be to hunt down and fix
the problems rather than reinstalling the whole darn thing! What do you
really learn by reinstalling?

oh, well... 

-- 
    Jeffrey D. Silverman | jeffrey AT jhu DOT edu
Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD
                 Website | http://www.wse.jhu.edu/newtnotes/

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