You are 100% dead on!
The only way we will get more users is to 'splain the basics, the
very things you mention here for starters!!
We need someone to present this kind of info at the PLUG West Oct Meeting.....
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/event/2010/10/27/day
lyle
At 06:21 PM 9/29/2010, you wrote:
I am new to the group and to linux and thought I would give a
newbie's opinion here. I am not concerned right now about kernel
issues (directly) I am trying to resolve basic fundamental
issues. Things like file and directory permissions, configuring
your system for network connection (i.e. network addressing, setting
up your domain, hostnames, nameserver resoltuon)
While I know that any one of these can get very very complex, even
just the first few steps have been pretty huge. But I want to
learn. There is only so much you can learn in a linux forum
depending almost entirely on the disposition of would-be experts and
how they can communicate.
My perspective is that even though I have worked in a highly
technical field as a power user in Windows it is obvious pretty
quickly when making decisions to configure even the smallest of home
network systems that I have relied heavily on Microsoft to help me
configure things.
Consider that most homes in the US have more than 1 computer and
many have more than 2. While just about anyone can download Ubuntu
or (other distro) follow instructions and have a system up and
running in 1/2 hour the minute they have to network 2 or more
computers life just got way more complicated. In today's world were
every home may have some sort of network, the amount of things I
have had to learn and do to network my home systems would make Linux
a deal breaker for many people.
The frustration is that there is no place to go to get a general
overview of what needs to be configured, and how to do it. I know
there is no one answer, but there are best practices and they are
going to differ depending on the need.
I have been "mapping net work drives" in Windows for 15 years and
never new until 3 months ago what SMB/CIFS was or Samba, or
NFS, Having to understand Samba alone just to get Linux/Unix to
talk to Windows or MAC can cause many to run screaming back to $MS
with there wallets open.
Maybe there needs to be a PLUG beginners group or a CONFIGFEST if
this is too braud to tackle in presentations. But after the last 3
months of trial and error configuration problems in my network at
home I would eagerly sit through a 4 hour hands on well prepared
discussion on file server configurations with SMB/CIFS and
understanding how to get smb.conf and fstab and file permissions to
work together.
Sorry of the length. $MS is an addiction I am trying to beat everyday.
James
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