[LUAU] a new use for hosef donations (used PCs)?

Jim Thompson jim at netgate.com
Mon Apr 10 03:34:41 PDT 2006


On Apr 8, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Hawaii Linux Institute wrote:

> Julian Yap wrote:
>> Wayne,
>>
>> Swing by McKinley sometime on Saturday.  We can have a chat/run
>> through of Samba.We can install it on a spare donated machine.
>>
> My wife is out of town & that may give a window to do just that.
>
>>  It's all pretty simple if you stick to the GUI utilities with
>> RedHat distros.  Maybe there's a specialized Linux Samba Server
>> distro?
> I am probably old enough to be your grandpa, so please don't take  
> my words too seriously.  One of the key issues in Samba is to  
> manually edit the config file.  This is what I missed the most from  
> John's week-long seminar.  Not too often we have a world-renown  
> expert come to the island to give a face-to-face tutorial & I  
> missed it.

Terpstra's opinion is that none of the distros get the samba.conf  
file 'right'.  I'm sure he would share his knowledge remotely.

As for having the machine 'be faster' with fewer processes, well, I  
won't lecture you, but you're incorrect.

Jim



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