On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:05:02PM -0500, A. Rick Anderson wrote: > Since nothing I've been able to do on FC3 seems to provide consistent > samba service, and all the searches I've done indicate that FC3 doesn't > support samba, which distro do most folks recommend that would provide > the least painful transition? I've been on RH8, RH9, FC1, and FC2. > I've dabbled with Mandrake for a while, and yddrasyle (sp?) years ago. > Fundamentally, what I'm looking for is a simple server, with samba > (shares/PDC), DNS, DHCP etc. > > I've enjoyed RedHat distros, especially the industry support, but a > distro that doesn't support samba is a non-starter for me. > Unfortunately, backing up to FC2 isn't really a workable option. It > took the store I bought the machine from (three months ago) over a week > to get FC2 to recognize the built-in network card and the cdrom burner. Have you reported the problems you've encountered at bugzilla.redhat.com ? A quick query isn't turning up any bug reports from you. I try to make Samba work on Fedora Core, but my chance of seeing bug reports that aren't in Bugzilla is depressingly low. -- JF
