Re: Another great example of the Linux community in action: NOT! (Was: Linux networking is a ball of confusion)

From: 7 (website_has_email_at_www.ecu.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 10/01/04 

Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:40:17 GMT

Dave Uhring wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 12:48:41 +0000, 7 wrote:
>
>> Samba is a duplication of windopery and necessarily
>> comes with all the mistakes made in windope file
>> and printer sharing. I think if you want to share files,
>> its far better to use ssh and fish, and drop samba.
>
> On that you are quite wrong.

How can that be?
You left the preceeding qualifier paragraph out..

>>There are totally hideos problems in windope file and printer
>>sharing. It may all seem to work, but when you have
>>specific things like firewalls to have to cross, it
>>becomes a total nightmare. I don't understand the
>>problems - it seems very basic - something along the lines
>>of needing but not having master in the network + caches
>>that keep alive ghost shares and names that have long
>>since been removed from the network which all makes the
>>task of managing the windope protocol all the more
>>difficult, dangerous and dodgy.

In samba even in a pure GNU/Linux environment, I see
ghost machines months after removal from the network
like in windope environment.
Some of the mistakes in windope environment
is being duplicated across to reproduce the
windopey behavior. No doubt someone will one day
write a ton of code to fix it and then windopes
will copy it to do a sco.

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