Debian Package for Samba 2.2.0

[Gary Wilson]

I may not be that much help for you. But ...

Storm 2000 is dead. The distro is shut down. A dot-com bust.

A good and stable Debian-based distribution that has a GUI installer and
sets up a nice GUI desktop is Progeny (at www.progeny.com).

That said, I don't think that there is that much difference between Mandrake
and Progeny. Mandrake is based on Red Hat. Progeny is based on Debian. Both
of them are Linux. And when they are installed they are running Linux, and
they are running essentially the same Linux.

The advantages of Mandrake or Progeny is in their easy-to-use installers,
their nice desktops, and the particular packages they include.

For a really good installer, Caldera OpenLinux tops them all. But that's
another story.

For a system that is going to be a server, you don't really need all of
that. Red Hat has a good server edition. Caldera has its eServer, which I
personally like even more. And Debian (not Progeny or Stormix or any other
version) is a server edition in its default configuration.

If you know some basic Linux, Debian can even be the easiest to set up and
maintain. It's got the best package program out there.

Anyway, too much is made about the differences between the distributions.
Even if you end up having to use Mandrake, it will still be Linux under the
hood. And that is what counts the most. That's what you really want running
on your servers.

Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Atwal, Steve" <steve.atwal at ubc.ca>
To: "'Patrizia Canton'" <cantonpa at unive.it>; "Gary Wilson"
<wilsong at sergievsky.cpmc.columbia.edu>
Cc: <samba at samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 1:59 PM
Subject: RE: Debian Package for Samba 2.2.0


Hi Guys:

Thanks for the info. I'm trying to convince people here to replace all our
RedHat servers to a Debian based distro (like Stormix), but one person who
just came back from a Linux course (where they used Mandrake 8.0) is
convinced that the Mandrake distro
is better than the Debian based distro I was planning on switching to (Storm
2000). Can you guys give me some ammo, good reasons to stick with my
original plan versus going with Mandrake 8.0 ? I know Mandrake makes it
easier to manage most things via a
GUI, and I did try to install Ximian on my home Storm 2000 machine (which
messed up my installation of dpkg so I can no longer install anything - how
do I fix this?).

Thanks
Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrizia Canton [mailto:cantonpa at unive.it]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 5:53 AM
To: Gary Wilson
Cc: Atwal, Steve; samba at samba.org
Subject: Re: Debian Package for Samba 2.2.0

If you are running the stable version of Debian
ask for samba 2.2.0 to the responsible for samba debian package.
You can find the e-mail address at the bottom of the page
http://packages.debian.org/stable/net/samba.html.
I did in this way, and I am running samba 2.2.0 on the stable dist
of Debian.
cheers
Patrizia
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Gary Wilson wrote:

> Yes, they can be found at this link. But if you are running the stable
> version of Debian, these packages in unstable won't work.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrizia Canton" <cantonpa at unive.it>
> To: "Atwal, Steve" <steve.atwal at ubc.ca>
> Cc: <samba at samba.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 3:03 AM
> Subject: Re: Debian Package for Samba 2.2.0
>
>
>
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/samba
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/samba-common
>
>
> > Can anyone tell us if there is a Samba install package for the new
version
> 2.2.0 ?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Steve
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Steve Atwal
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> > University of British Columbia
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> > Tel:  (604) 822-4299
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> > E-Mail: steve.atwal at ubc.ca
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