I give up

[Kat]

Hmm, on my first try I removed Windows NT and 2000 Domain controllers,
replaced with Samba 2.2, added all win2K and NT and 98 clients. Profiles
worked beautifully. Printing works better and faster than before. (I use
CUPs)

I am using 2.2 as DC's and on all the other file servers, running 2.07
which works like a champ.  Using with reiserFS/striped file systems and
the speed is wonderful for my users.  They asked after the conversion
if we bought new 'super servers'.  Funny thing is the new file servers
have P2's and the only windows 2K boxes have P3's.  The P3's are being
converted to user desktops.

I guess I can understand frustration levels, as I have felt it before,
but "giving up" should never be an option.  Unless someone says flat
out that what you want to do can't be done.

I have now converted 3 companies (largest has 75 users) to running a 100%
samba/linux environment.  CLients of course are W2K and NT.. The love
the speed and the systems have been rock solid with no lockups or any
problems, unlike W2K advanced server which locked up 3 times in the
first week they went to it.

Either do, or do not, there is no try. To 'try' assumes failure...

Cheers
Kathee

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Morris Maynard
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:34 AM
To: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org
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.