On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 08:22 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > These Samba discussions come up again and > again on this list, so it's not just me that's having problems. ---- I am a samba team member and I will say... - samba has a configuration section with over 200 options, each substantially covered in the man page. - samba.org web site offers 2 massive books, free for examination/download or available at your favorite bookseller in dead tree form called 'Samba 3 HowTo' and 'Samba By Example' which cover virtually every setting/possibility but few people actually want to make the investment of time to go through them. I have no problem stating that these 2 books are the class of Open Source documentation. - samba endeavors to provide both a client and a server function with all of those preferences in an attempt to achieve a mostly undocumented set of protocols. - samba provides authentication via an incredible variety of systems including the standard /etc/passwd, it's own version of /etc/passwd called smbpasswd, a more robust db system called tdb, kerberos, LDAP or can shuffle the authentication off to a genuine Windows domain controller (and thus, via winbindd). There is no other open source package that is as versatile. - samba provides interconnectivity features ranging from Windows 95/98 sharing, to the latest CIFS protocols of Windows 2003 Server and all versions in between. - samba achieves all of this on a UNIX/Linux platform with the various constraints that it poses. - samba has its own mail lists, the primary users list is very active and it appears that people on all Linux and UNIX installations have various configuration issues...it's not a Fedora thing. Fedora adds the complexity of SELinux but I think that is not a major hurdle. I'm glad you solved your problem Craig
