[olug] samba headache in ubuntu 8.04 laptop

[T. J. Brumfield]

Given that Novell/MS work tightly together, and that Samba is
primarily developed by Novell, then you're best bet for Samba support
is a Novell distro.

-- T. J.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:51 AM, DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> in my experience, it seems to be the software that usually works better in
> ubuntu, rather than the hardware.
> the package manager is awesome, i have to admit.
>
> where i really run into problems with ubuntu is the samba support. it sucks
> for me every time.
> this particular issue may be specific to my samba network, but mandriva,
> debian, and Suse always work seamlessly with my servers (other than that few
> second delay when browsing the workgroup).
>
> what confuses me with this ubuntu install is that samba is so sporadic in
> functionality.
> browsing through various threads, i see that samba problems are quite common
> with many versions of ubuntu.
>
> bottom line...if samba doesn't work i can't use it.
> there are many other people migrating from M$ that are going to be turned
> off by this.
> in my opinion it holds back the adoption rate for open-source alternatives.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
>
>> > Ubuntu has done better for me on hardware than anything else.  I tend to
>> run
>> > pretty mainstream hardware, though.
>>
>> Ditto that.  I've tried SLED and Fedora on the desktop, and
>> RHEL/CentOS/SLES on servers, but Ubuntu desktop is my favorite
>> because it just works more often than anything else.
>>
>> I will admit that the orange color scheme is one of the first things
>> I change after install, though...
>>
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