I give up

[Morris Maynard]

Kat: Not a well considered answer on either point.
It should be obvious that printing was working on my system with samba 2.07
and is not with samba 2.2 - so the culprit is almost certainly samba.

And I have been in this business one year less than you, and am generally
quite happy with the support and functionality I recieve from Microsoft.
Sometimes customers ask for Linux, and there are a few hard cases who don't
want to pay for NT server. For these and also to keep up-to-date I have been
setting up Linux servers. In general, these are reliable and have more
functionality than the AT&T SysV I used back in 1987; however, my comments
concerning the documentation and information available stand and are
illustrated by your response.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kat [mailto:kathee at ezunx.com]
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:53 AM
To: Morris Maynard
Subject: RE: I give up


printing is based on installed drivers and printer software you
are running on linux/unix, not samba. Samba only provides the
means for sharing the resource. I use CUPS and have not had a single
problem. I did have some problems with LPRng.  Also W2K as a
print server was horribly slow and crashed often -- and it did
not support (funny) all the drivers for all the printers and OS's
we had -- go figure.

You might try looking into the printing system itself and not
fault samba. I think you are troubleshooting the wrong application.

As for MS converging on a solution much more quickly? Sorry to say,
are you nuts?  I have been in this business since 1979.. Not sure
how long you have, and have worked in the mainframe world as
well as MS and Unix since day one... So I find your overall statement
a bit of a stretch.

Notice I kept this off the list too -- since it is silly to keep
sending to everyone a bunch of personal opinions...

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: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:41 AM
To: samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org
Subject: RE: I give up


Well, no question I've posted here ever got so much response.
I don't mean to minimize what the Samba product accomplishes for a
heterogeneous environment. That is a really good thing, and a testament to
the possibilities of the whole open-source movement.
I do get very frustrated with the variableness of the combination of info
from newsgroups, how-tos, FAQs, etc. of varying ages and purposes. My
personal experience is that a solution converges much more quickly (even if
it's "we can't do that") in the MS world. When I've spent most of the night
grappling with a set of problems like this, composing an aggravated email
helps to vent. And the Send button is located right next to the Save button
in my email client...
Note that no one really addressed the question of why 2.2 wouldn't print
(i.e., it won't here). That seems like not a small thing, no?