samba - Jan 2010 - Given up on Fedora Ubuntu is 1000-folder simpler

I spent several days (at least 20 hours) tying to get Fedora 11 Samba server
going. I consulted every resource that I knew including this list. When I
discovered that Fedora 11 Samba could be browsed immediately upon
installation, and a simple reboot disabled this, I gave up. I decided to try
Ubuntu. After intallation it took only five minutes of editing the smb.conf
file to make my share fully operational. In terms of total cost of ownership
Fedora and Red Hat have become big losers.

Peter Olcott wrote:
> I decided to try
> Ubuntu. After intallation it took only five minutes of editing the smb.conf
> file to make my share fully operational.
:-)

I had been hearing good things about Ubuntu, however I was firmly in the Debian
camp.

When Etch came out, the Samba packages were so bad that I ended up trying Ubuntu
(7.04). It worked great!

Now I am a Ubuntu fan, no going back to Debian.

Sincerely,

-- 
Michael Lueck
Lueck Data Systems
http://www.lueckdatasystems.com/

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Peter Olcott <peteolcott at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I spent several days (at least 20 hours) tying to get Fedora 11 Samba
server
> going. I consulted every resource that I knew including this list. When I
> discovered that Fedora 11 Samba could be browsed immediately upon
> installation, and a simple reboot disabled this, I gave up. I decided to
try
> Ubuntu. After intallation it took only five minutes of editing the smb.conf
> file to make my share fully operational. In terms of total cost of
ownership
> Fedora and Red Hat have become big losers.
while distro wars are kind of funny, I would rather you specified what
went wrong than just troll about Fedora. There are lots of people
using samba and fedora without any hassle at all.

At the end of the day, it's just about editing a text file, smb.conf
on both platforms.

-- 
natxo

Am Freitag, 15. Januar 2010 00:31:34 schrieb Peter
Olcott:
> I spent several days (at least 20 hours) tying to get Fedora 11 Samba
>  server going. I consulted every resource that I knew including this list.
>  When I discovered that Fedora 11 Samba could be browsed immediately upon
> installation, and a simple reboot disabled this, I gave up. I decided to
Actually, Samba is similar on both linux distributions. What might have gone 
wrong? Perhaps a policy kit issue or whatever .... since you didn't 
investigate the issue using standard troubleshooting procedures, noone can 
tell - and you end up as a troll.
>  try Ubuntu. After intallation it took only five minutes of editing the
>  smb.conf file to make my share fully operational. In terms of total cost
>  of ownership Fedora and Red Hat have become big losers.
>

didyou try disabling fedora's firewal with /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables 
stop and then running ntsysv and unchecking iptables?

Peter Olcott wrote:
> I spent several days (at least 20 hours) tying to get Fedora 11 Samba
server
> going. I consulted every resource that I knew including this list. When I
> discovered that Fedora 11 Samba could be browsed immediately upon
> installation, and a simple reboot disabled this, I gave up. I decided to
try
> Ubuntu. After intallation it took only five minutes of editing the smb.conf
> file to make my share fully operational. In terms of total cost of
ownership
> Fedora and Red Hat have become big losers.
>