Hi Guys,
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Hugo Mills wrote:
> Samba: Your guess is as good as mine for how to make it work.
> Samba and I aren't on speaking terms, and haven't been for some
> time. :)
Yes, well, I had Samba working fine on the present old fileserver, than
it suddenly stopped talking and I never managed to get it to come back.
In fairness, I think it was a firewalling problem not a Samba problem.
It occurs to me that another strategy might be to add NFS to the Windoze
install on my laptop and simply not bother with Samba.
> > They seem to think I need
> > it for Samba. I'm not convinced, and it seems grotesquely complex and
> > arcane to manage the way they advise.
>
> I think that describes LDAP quite well. :)
I find it incredible in c21 that I have to put domain in in that
"dc=gscott,dc=co,dc=uk" style and that I have to write a script in that
form and run it, just to change john to jack.
Looks like a very bad joke to me.
There seem to be a few X-based tools around that I guess are friendlier,
but then I didn't install X on the box .. it's a server.
BTW the ask about UPnP was specifically because I've been considering a
Squeezebox(TM). Any related advice or thoughts appreciated. One of the
reasons is that in Basingstoke, Radio Solent is a bit distant, so the
plan was to stream both the Beeb, some distant streamed stuff (Africa,
South America, etc.) and the CD collection.
ATB,
Gordon.
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