I give up

[Stan Sander]

My time is valuable as is everyone else's.  Someone whose time is not valuable
is most likely not doing anything worthwhile in the first place.   I, too, am
looking forward to 2.2.  In fact, I just recently joined this mailing list so I
could start to develop a picture of how 2.2 is going to work.  However, right
now 2.2 is bleeding edge, and if you want to use it, you can expect to "bleed"
a little.  Thank goodness for those who are willing to do that so the rest of
the world can have a stable product.  I've got samba servers that run for
months with no trouble.  I still get users who come to me with questions for
which samba is the answer. In fact, I keep a copy of the source code for the
latest stable release handy for just such occasions.  I can compile and
configure a samba server on almost any *nix platform and have it in production
in under an hour, and then not have to worry about it anymore.  It does what
it's supposed to do and I take care of other things.  Yes, it may take a while
to figure it all out, but it is worthwhile.  Maybe you should consider spending
a few dollars on one of the books that has been published about samba and at
the very least use it as a reference.  Spending more money on MS software isn't
going to get you any closer to *nix and MS connectivity and interoperability.

Michael E Osborne wrote:

> 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.

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