I give up

[Michael E Osborne]

My time is worth a great deal, which is why I turned to Samba in the first
place. I'm looking forward to 2.2, but it's not ready yet.  We operate 24x7
and Samba "just works". One of my Samba servers has been running for 310
days with out a single glitch. That's what my users want, reliability. The
time I've invested in learning Samba has been paid back many times over.

Samba assists me in doing what I want to do where Windows tries to dictate
how I should do it.







Morris Maynard <morris at maynidea.com> on 02/15/2001 06:34:22 AM

To:   samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org
cc:    (bcc: Michael E Osborne/JACADS/REC)
Subject:  I give up




How much is your time worth? I know I could have bought all of my customers
a copy of Windows 2000 Server and set it up for them in the time I have
wasted playing around with Samba 2.2.

After a whole lot of trying this and trying that (the this's and that's
from
HOW-TO, FAQ, newsgroup postings) I finally succeeded in getting a Win2K box
to join the Samba PDC's domain. But of course I couldn't print. The
previous
printer definitions in smb.conf didn't work anymore: there was always an
error when trying to connect from the Win2k client to the printer on the
PDC. And when I started trying to implement printers via the [Printers]
share, nothing would work until I uploaded the proper driver - and that
operation failed for some mysterious reason ("Access denied") after all of
the files had been copied to the proper place (via the Add Printer wizard).

The last straw was when my local logon profiles "disappeared" - if I logged
on as anyone other than "root" to my Win2k client, I had no roaming profile
and I had no local profile - I was a ghost.

No thanks. I went back to 2.0.7 just to be able to get some work done. Next
week, I get a new hard drive and start to leave Linux behind.