Hi, This is really just to start a discussion...
It is clear that there is a desire and need to provide novice admins with a way to install certain server software, in this case, file server software. Installing a single package via tasks at install (eg 'samba') does not really get the novice user any farther along. Yes, the package is installed, but now what? What is really needed is to install both the package and a configuration package. Eg: Samba (Windows file sharing) -- task installs samba and samba-default-shares NFS (Unix file sharing) -- task installs nfs-kernel-server and nfs-default-exports Samba + NFS (Windows and Unix file sharing) -- task installs samba and samba-default-shares installs nfs-kernel-server and nfs-default-exports Obviously, the samba-default-shares and nfs-default-exports packages need to be created. They could start off very simply by creating a read-only share available to class A, B and C addresses, or could be more complicated and have debconf ask questions about ro/rw, the name of the share, who can connect to it, etc. What do you think? Jamie -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC (freenode): jdstrand -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
