[olug] samba headache in ubuntu 8.04 laptop

[DYNATRON tech]

hmmm. interesting....

i'm not a fan of novell, but i do have a Suse desktop.
it does work great with my samba servers, but i'd like something a bit
smoother.
my laptop only runs at 1.4ghz/512mb/40gb, and the new suse would be a little
overbearing i think.

right now i'm thinking about trying the new mandriva 2009.
i've got ubuntu grabbing the iso as we speak.
it's like getting fired, right after you train your replacement.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:00 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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