On Mon February 13 2006 10:32 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > I'm still not sure why it wasn't working, since testparm seemed happy > enough, but I went ahead and defined a few shared directories, and now > everything is working correctly. Most odd! I had thought to get 'homes' > working first, then add things in later. I've found Samba, as implemented in Fedora, to be one of the most daunting aspects of the distro. Having used PCLinuxOS (a Mandrake derivative), and MEPIS (a debian derivative), I find it strange that Fedora hasn't addressed this. The documentation is at best confusing - I've even printed out the entire 1100 page Samba manual. Things don't work as described, you do something, seemingly the same way a dozen times, and then, on the next try, it works. It's just too damned hard - I hope the issue gets addressed. I was supposed to post a RFE for feature enhancement, but I never got around to it. With MEPIS and PCLinuxOS, Samba just works. In PCLinuxOS you turn it on with a simple interface that asks you a few questions and you're done. With MEPIS, it comes up working - if you install to a machine on a Windows network, when you reboot, you see the network. Perhaps there are security concerns, but, these should be addressed, and the whole process simplified. I've seen many threads such as this over the past 20 months on this list, so this is not just me... -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
