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On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:08:48 -0500 |
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reader wrote: |
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> Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> writes: |
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> > frankly samba is a mature and stable package. It should work. Perhaps |
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> > the OP's efforts are better directed at figuring out what is going wrong with samba. |
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> Yes, that was the conclusion I came to (I'm the OP) as well and have |
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> now gotten it working. It was a simple matter of redoing the |
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> passwords with smbpasswd after and update. |
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> Didn't seem so simple at first since it had been working with no |
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> worries for mnths then suddenly no workee. |
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> However I would add that samba is a very complex program. Chances are |
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> good it will just work with little fiddling but if it doesn't it |
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> appears a giant undertaking to understand and debug it. (For a common |
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> numbskull at any rate) |
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> In my case, fortunately I didn't have to. Because as you pointed out, |
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> it is stable and mostly just works. I just happend to think of |
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> redoing the passwds and didn't really get even as far as going thru |
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> the gentoo howto on samba or even looking thru man pages. |
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Reminds me of that nursery rhyme "When she was good she was very very |
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good, but when she was bad she was rotten" |
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I too confess to not understanding samba, and I will put the "redo the |
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smbpasswds" into my mental notebook of things to check. |
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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