[LUAU] SAMBA Help

[Chris Wong]

Truthfully, I'm having trouble with SAMBA in general. I don't know who to
point blame at, SAMBA or Microsoft... well.. I do know who to point blame
but I have to do it fairly.

(btw, I'm not asking for help here... just getting on the pedestal here to
complain)

At work I'm running a very mixed enviroment between Win95/98, Win3.11, AIX
3.2.5, SCO ODT 3.0, SCO OpenServer 5.0, and of course... Linux. :)

I've had no end of browse master problems.. (Somewhere along the line a
lesser machine decides to become a browse master and I lose half my
network.. well.. mayube alll but 2 machines in the network neighborhood)

That has been more or less fixed I think, by locking down ALL other Samba
servers out there and making one of them browse master.

Then a machine disappears from the Network Neighborhood. I have to kill
and restart nmbd on that machine. Bizarre.

We use Samba to handle Microsoft Mail. Before you accuse me of being
insane... don't knock it.. it works. (and it runs on Linux).

But the issue of user level security makes me queasy. *sigh* It's
effective but it's so much painful. Plus connecting Win3.1 clients is
always difficult. *sigh*

Well.. I'm off of my pedestal... good night...

(if you want to learn more about MS Mail and Samba... let me know. Heh..
it works.. I can't believe it does, but it works)