[LUAU] SAMBA Help

[John W Christian]

Chris,

Yes Chris, let's hear more of this sordid story.....    ;-)

John
[makes for interesting bedtime tales... ]

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:15:37 -1000 (HST) Chris Wong
<wongc at math.ed.hawaii.edu> writes:
>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)
>
>

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