On the other hand, I just dumped using suse 9.2 on my desktop and laptop because they have yet to fix the i/o error trying to browse mounted cifs shares via konqueror. Fedora 3 works with them like a charm. I guess they each have their pluses and minuses
Dave P On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 01:43 +0100, Rolf A. Vaglid wrote: > John Schmerold skrev: > > I'm really sick of trying to get Fedora working with Samba & LDAP, I've > > read all the books, technotes etc etc > > > > Still no glory after several months of fighting with it. > > > > So: I'm going to give SUSE 9.2 a shot, after 6 years of Red Hat, however > > I'll certainly need some support & don't know which list &/or news > > groups are "best" > > > > Anyone care to make a recommendation or two? > > Hi John, I have the exact opinion. I have tried several times setting up > Samba/LDAP on Redhat and Fedora, only to come to the same conclution > as you. I ended up buying SuSE 9.2, and now it seems to work as a charm. > > I just spent a couple of hours setting up a Postfix/Dovecot/Horde -> pam > -> OpenLDAP solution with no problems at all. I'll hook up > authentication from a Samba server to this server tomorrow. > > My point is that it seems almost like SuSE had this scenario in mind in > 9.2, as opposed to Fedora et al. The reaseon I decided trying suse when > giving up on Fedora was just the fact that John H. T. used Suse in his > book "Samba 3 by Example". ( By the way; thanks John H. T. ) > > I'll still go for Fedora on my desktops and laptop tho, mainly due to > apt-get and the fact that most software packages are availible as Fedora > rpms. > > Do drop me a mail if you get into trouble on Samba/LDAP on SuSE. > > Cheers > Rolf > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
