Hi; On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 11:56 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi Ed; > > > Well.... IMHO, I think you are on a witch hunt..... :-) > > Having the place holder of "Windows Network" which isn't harming > anything and trying to make it disappear by doing "stuff" is IMHO > pointless. Also, you've taken some advice in the bugzilla that seems to > me very ill advised. You've wiped out /var/lib/samba which belongs to > the samba-common package. Now, if you decide to remove that package you > may run into difficulties or if the package is updated at some point it > may cause you grief. > > I don't know why folks go in and willy nilly start deleting things or > advise folks to do that. > > IMHO, if you don't plan to run any samba server or samba client you > should simply remove any package related to samba. That would include > gvfs-smb and pam_smb. And, FWIW, the removal of gvfs-smb will remove > "Windows Network" from nautilus. I write this last response to this thread as a defence of my actions and as a warning to others. On the Places menu it says 'Network' and the tool tip says "Browse bookmarked and local network options". When I click on it, it gives me neither my bookmarked sftp remote machines nor my local network, but instead shows me a network I do not have. Nowhere can I find a reference that this icon is for existing or potentially new Microsoft Networks or even samba. I genuinely expected it to show me my existing Linux LAN with perhaps some properties of that network such as addresses or aliases of the connected remote machines and another means of connecting to a remote machine similar to the 'Connect to Server' launcher just below it. Since I had been working (albeit just started) to set up vnc I thought perhaps there was an error. Before I started screwing around, 6 days ago I posted to this list asking/saying "Can't get rid of WindowsXP network on Fedora !?!" and received no response. So I went ahead seeing what I could do about it. I am quite willing to leave it alone, if that is your advice. As I said it just started out being a minor irritant. Now I have to figure out how to get /var/lib/samba back. I suppose I should remove all remnants of samba then re-install them if I can. -- Regards Bill Fedora 12, Gnome 2.28 Evo.2.28, Emacs 23.1.1 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
