Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is available besides samba

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:08:48 -0500
reader wrote:

> Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz> writes:
> 
> > frankly samba is a mature and stable package. It should work. Perhaps
> > the OP's efforts are better directed at figuring out what is going wrong with samba.
> 
> Yes, that was the conclusion I came to (I'm the OP) as well and have
> now gotten it working.  It was a simple matter of redoing the
> passwords with smbpasswd after and update.
> 
> Didn't seem so simple at first since it had been working with no
> worries for mnths then suddenly no workee.
> 
> However I would add that samba is a very complex program.  Chances are
> good it will just work with little fiddling but if it doesn't it
> appears a giant undertaking to understand and debug it.  (For a common
> numbskull at any rate)
> 
> In my case, fortunately I didn't have to.  Because as you pointed out,
> it is stable and mostly just works.  I just happend to think of
> redoing the passwds and didn't really get even  as far as going thru
> the gentoo howto on samba or even looking thru man pages.


Reminds me of that nursery rhyme "When she was good she was very very
good, but when she was bad she was rotten"

I too confess to not understanding samba, and I will put the "redo the
smbpasswds" into my mental notebook of things to check. 


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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>

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