With another samba page that I had found before, I kept on hitting refresh just to see the quotes... ah well.
Listening to: Alan Silvestri - Pachelbel 'Canon'
Tuesday, 17 February 2004
Still fighting samba
One of these days I will win against samba. I blame it on WinXP, but who knows. I have been using the Samba HOW TO, but I get stuck on some of the trouble shooting stuff. I was a little hopeful about using it, but it's more or less the same as other documentation I looked at already. *sigh* Ah well. I don't want to spend too much time working away at it, not after spending all day at work anyways.
With another samba page that I had found before, I kept on hitting refresh just to see the quotes... ah well.
With another samba page that I had found before, I kept on hitting refresh just to see the quotes... ah well.
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Yeah, I've prettymuch given up on using Samba and my linux box for a file server. Which is damned unfortunate, but if I still can't get it working after a month then there's something wrong, and I don't think it's my computing skills.
ReplyDeleteIf you do manage to get it working, post your solutions! (including the smb.conf and anything you might have done to the WinXX clients to let them connect..)
Yeah, samba's always been the cause of much frustration to me. I've usually been able to get folders to share, but as far as reading shares on other machines, well, that usually is a lot harder. i usually just use ftp for transfer between the two machines i got hooked up. So much easier.
ReplyDeleteJust a commment, for ftp (and sftp) I have found a good client that's free. It's called Filezilla and seems to work pretty well.
ReplyDeleteJust to let people know if they wanted to start to get away from leechFTP. ;-)
I usually just used the command line ftp clients for transfer between local machines. When i need something a little more robust, for distant servers and long downloads, i use Gftp for linux. Which is of course, free.
ReplyDeleteIt's really annoying that when you use windows, it's sometimes really hard to find free utilities like this. I think if you ended up paying for every piece of software you used for your computer, you'd end up paying hundreds of dollars just for stupid little utilities that are almost necessary to operate your computer. Linux almost always had utilities available for everything.
But you have to consider ease of use for tools, windows has a MUCH better track record for this. It might seem easy for you kibbee, but you use the command line most of the time. Most computer users would not know how to change directories using the command line, let alone anything else.
ReplyDeleteAnd tools that you have not put as much time into making look pretty or easy you wouldn't be able to sell anyways, so you might as well give it away and gain some fame.
If it's nice enough to use, people will pay for it. But the way that things are going, people are making apps that are released to multiple platforms at the same time, so eventually you won't be able to contrast windows against linux so easily 'cause they will be the same apps.