Alex, I'm not sure what it is that bothers you so much about the Samba instructions in the BLFS book. Recently, you suggested that we drop Samba from the book because the instructions were inadequate.
I was appalled at this suggestion from you, who I respect and judge as a reasonable man. I tried my best to rewrite the instructions to address the (very reasonable) suggestions you made at the time. After those changes, your comments were along the lines of "the instructions are now satisfactory". However, now you have entered new bugs into bugzilla. I addressed one of them. In my opinion, satisfactorily. You have however, elected to reopen the bug, and add even newer changes. I feel this is going to be a never-ending cycle. So I closed the bug. Again. Alex, the base Samba instructions meet the needs for 99% of the users who will install the Samba package. For those that the instructions do not meet their needs, well, these individuals should be able to configure a Samba installation without word for word instructions from BLFS. Alex, men have written entire *books* about Samba. You cannot reasonably expect us to summarize these books in a few short pages in the BLFS book. The use and configuration of Samba has endless possibilities, certainly, you cannot expect us to entertain all these possibilities in the book. BLFS provides a basic set of instructions, that for me anyway, allows sharing of Windows volumes to Linux, Linux volumes to Windows and the use of Windows shared printers from Linux. Topics such as using Samba as an NT domain controller, cannot, and as best as would think at this moment, will not ever be addressed in the BLFS book. Again, think about the fact the men have written *entire books* about Samba setup and configuration. I am hoping that you will still offer your valuable advice and wisdom in making BLFS better, however, within reason. Trying to address every individual possibility will never be the focus of the Samba instructions. Please understand, you know the package very well, and you can use it to take advantage of every advanced capability the package affords. Most folks don't need, nor care, about those advanced capabilities. I'll close my message with a question to you, Alex. Do you *really* think that someone that needs the advanced capabilities that the Samba package provides, *needs* help from the BLFS book? -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 23:04:00 up 62 days, 22:37, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.02 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
