Re: [Samba] Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler

2010-01-17 Thread Adam
didyou try disabling fedora's firewal with /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables stop and then running ntsysv and unchecking iptables? Peter Olcott wrote: I spent several days (at least 20 hours) tying to get Fedora 11 Samba server going. I consulted every resource that I knew including this list. When I d

Re: [Samba] Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler

2010-01-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Rob Shinn (mor...@tuxedo.darktech.org): > I've used both and the packages themselves are basically the same. > A particular Ubuntu stable release package of Samba is more likely > to be more current than the Debian stable release, but that's a > result of policy differences, not technical

Re: [Samba] Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler

2010-01-15 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 03:46:16PM -0500, Rob Shinn wrote: > That's just silly. I use Ubuntu on my desktops and servers mostly > because I prefer the extra fit-and-polish it has to Debian. But I've > used both and the packages themselves are basically the same. A > particular Ubuntu stable

Re: [Samba] Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler

2010-01-15 Thread Rob Shinn
Michael Lueck wrote: When Etch came out, the Samba packages were so bad that I ended up trying Ubuntu (7.04). It worked great! That's just silly. I use Ubuntu on my desktops and servers mostly because I prefer the extra fit-and-polish it has to Debian. But I've used both and the packages th

Re: [Samba] Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler

2010-01-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
Quoting Natxo Asenjo : On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Peter Olcott wrote: I spent several days (at least 20 hours) tying to get Fedora 11 Samba server going. I consulted every resource that I knew including this list. When I discovered that Fedora 11 Samba could be browsed immediately upon

Re: [Samba] Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler

2010-01-14 Thread Walter Mautner
Am Freitag, 15. Januar 2010 00:31:34 schrieb Peter Olcott: > I spent several days (at least 20 hours) tying to get Fedora 11 Samba > server going. I consulted every resource that I knew including this list. > When I discovered that Fedora 11 Samba could be browsed immediately upon > installation,

Re: [Samba] Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler

2010-01-14 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Peter Olcott wrote: > I spent several days (at least 20 hours) tying to get Fedora 11 Samba server > going. I consulted every resource that I knew including this list. When I > discovered that Fedora 11 Samba could be browsed immediately upon > installation, and a

Re: [Samba] Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler

2010-01-14 Thread Michael Lueck
Peter Olcott wrote: I decided to try Ubuntu. After intallation it took only five minutes of editing the smb.conf file to make my share fully operational. :-) I had been hearing good things about Ubuntu, however I was firmly in the Debian camp. When Etch came out, the Samba packages were so b

[Samba] Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Olcott
I spent several days (at least 20 hours) tying to get Fedora 11 Samba server going. I consulted every resource that I knew including this list. When I discovered that Fedora 11 Samba could be browsed immediately upon installation, and a simple reboot disabled this, I gave up. I decided to try Ubunt