On Thursday 15 June 2006 05:50, Fernando Lozano wrote: > Hi Alan, > > >I'm of the opinion that "configure clients" is outside the scope > > of Samba, which should be confined to server side tasks and > > common clients which run on Linux (smbclient, kioslaves, > > gnome-vfs). Keep in mind that we don't expect an Apache admin to > > be able to configure IE6. > > That's not the same thing. Most Samba admins have it just to serve > Windows clients. We should target the real world were professionals > live, not the ideal world of perfect technology. And would you > setup Samba on an all-Linux network?
Sorry, posting at 02:46am isn't good for the brain cells. I see what I posted implies I mean we shouldn't use Windows with Samba. This is not the case. Of course we should consider the real world and Samba does usually serve Windows clients. By "outside the scope of Samba" I meant "outside the scope of what should be tested on a Samba exam", i.e. we should test that Samba is doing the correct thing per SMB/CIFS, not check that the client is doing the correct thing per SMB/CIFS. Imagine a scenario where Samba is set up correctly, but the client is using the wrong authentication method. Should we have items on fixing that client? Remember that this then involves all the peculiarities of different Windows versions, and LPI does not have a mandate to test Windows competencies. In a case like this, the correct answer on an item about this can be limited to "Samba is configured correctly, the client is mis-configured". -- If only me, you and dead people understand hex, how many people understand hex? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list [email protected] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
