On 24/08/11 08:55, Peter Merchant wrote:
How good is your linux installation?
My biggest gripe is with networking in a mixed environment. Samba has been fantastic for around 8 or 9 years now. I think it is also the best option for networking even in a Linux only environment. However with each Debian distro update, the CIFS support seems to get more and more broke, which is a real shame.
mount.cifs in Debian Squeeze requires entries in /etc/fstab. This is supposedly for security reasons but is a huge pain. Apart from now requiring loads of entries for every user and every share in /etc/fstab, Nautilus now gets in on the act trying to mount shares (sometimes failing due to password requirements), resulting in multiple copies of shares appearing in file open windows, some of which work, some of which don't. Horribly broke.
There also seems to be new problems with the Linux extensions which also group/user rights to be passed to clients. Used to work in Lenny/Etch, now broke.
Really frustrating when new releases seem to take you backwards. Cheers Tim -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-09-06 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
