Randy McMurchy wrote: > 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. ....(read the original post)...
I use Samba. I've always found the BLFS book's intructions fine for my simple purposes. All I want is to let my wife's windows heap access some backups she keeps on my LFS-dream-machine and get to the common cups printer. I don't use SWAT nor winbindd. I suspect a whole heap of people are just like me. In fact, if you want to use Samba for the full gamut of that complicated Microsoft proprietary-standard networking stuff, then you are better off reading the free online copy of the Oh! Really! book that (used to be in the tarball, but I didn't check recently, and) has all the gory details. (B)LFS should be educative, but not about Microsoft Proprietary Protocols (with-ATLI - anti-trust-lock-in ;-). Microsoft stuff is best taught in very expensive training courses run by very expensive consultants (so you realise why they are such a bad idea). R. (I acknowledge that Microsoft is a trade mark of the Convicted Anti-Trust (in the USA) and Anti-Competitive (in the EU) Company Microsoft Corp.) (Oh! Really! is just my joke about the really rather excellent publishing house O'Reilly - and I hope Tom will forgive me) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
