Decius wrote:
] Samba has too
] modes of configuration:
]
] 1. Really complex
] 2. Web based

yeah, and in my experience, you can replace number 2 there with "doesn't fucking work", because i've had nothing but trouble with the web based admin tools.

] NFS is neither complex nor web based. Thats why people prefer
] it. It would be easy to create a simplified interface to samba
] that has similar syntax to /etc/exports, but no... and hence
] this is needed.

hear hear. man, i wish they'd had this for free a couple of years ago... would've saved all sorts of headaches. i'm still gonna force ryan to download it on his machine so i don't have to care when samba breaks or fails to start on my machine (which is bloody all the time).

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