[LUAU] SAMBA Help

[Chris Wong]

On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, John W Christian wrote:

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

Well... we use Microsoft Exchange for some of our mail. More than I'd like
but well... that's life for you.

So anyhow, for those who has setup mail for a small network, you know it
requires sharing a directory (wgpo0000) and so on.

We hit upon the idea of using Samba to share the directory. We copied off
the existing postoffice (my machine no less) to the samba machine.

And then pointed each MS exchange client to it.

Kinda nice.

It works so far... I'm waitnig for SOMETHING to go wrong.


> 
> 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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