I give up

Armand Welsh armand at welshhome.org
Mon Feb 26 06:13:29 GMT 2001


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Linux is not for everyone.

Learn it, and you know a lot about *nix systems in general.  Try to use it,
w/o learning what it's doing, and you can spend a long time trying to figure
out why it's doing what it's doing.

Samba is not a PDC or BDC yet.  It can do some functions well, in some
environments, but it's alpha code.  Consider yourself lucky that you can
even get access to the alpha code.  If it were Microsoft's code, the public
wouldn't even see the code until it entered it's late beta stages (actually,
they still wouldn't see the code, just the results of the code).

It's never a good idea to run anything Alpha, Beta, or any other
"non-official production" software.  I have a heavy tendancy to reliability.
And I can not confidently install alpha or beta code on customer systems, so
I dont.  If you are dealing with a customer, you shouldn't put anything
newer than 2.0.7 (current stable production release) on their system.  If
2.0.7 doesn't do what you want, then find another solution, but you can't
very well claim that samba is a waste of time, when you are dealing with
code that is still in the embryo stage.... you should at least wait till
it's in a final beta release before trying to merit it's use in a production
environment.

Armand Welsh

BTW: I don't see the relevence of a new hard drive to leave linux... Just
convert your partitions over from ext2 to ntfs (or fat32).  It's not as easy
as a walk in the park, but for anyone that understands linux, it's still a
simple process.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Morris Maynard" <morris at maynidea.com>
To: <samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 8:34 AM
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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