[olug] samba headache in ubuntu 8.04 laptop

[woodsjay at cox.net]

I've been trying out various releases to replace Fedora 8. So far only Mandriva One 2009 is capable of booting up on the variety of machines being tested. 

I haven't been able to handle getting all the packages of interest as well as I have learned to do on Fedora. Many are not available. The ease of getting the installation close to what I want that the groups of packages presented by Fedora gives, hasn't been found yet. The replacement for the livna repositories hasn't been found yet.

---- DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com> wrote: 
> hmmm. interesting....
> 
> i'm not a fan of novell, but i do have a Suse desktop.
> it does work great with my samba servers, but i'd like something a bit
> smoother.
> my laptop only runs at 1.4ghz/512mb/40gb, and the new suse would be a little
> overbearing i think.
> 
> right now i'm thinking about trying the new mandriva 2009.
> i've got ubuntu grabbing the iso as we speak.
> it's like getting fired, right after you train your replacement.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:00 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > Given that Novell/MS work tightly together, and that Samba is
> > primarily developed by Novell, then you're best bet for Samba support
> > is a Novell distro.
> >
> > -- T. J.
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:51 AM, DYNATRON tech <dynatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > in my experience, it seems to be the software that usually works better
> > in
> > > ubuntu, rather than the hardware.
> > > the package manager is awesome, i have to admit.
> > >
> > > where i really run into problems with ubuntu is the samba support. it
> > sucks
> > > for me every time.
> > > this particular issue may be specific to my samba network, but mandriva,
> > > debian, and Suse always work seamlessly with my servers (other than that
> > few
> > > second delay when browsing the workgroup).
> > >
> > > what confuses me with this ubuntu install is that samba is so sporadic in
> > > functionality.
> > > browsing through various threads, i see that samba problems are quite
> > common
> > > with many versions of ubuntu.
> > >
> > > bottom line...if samba doesn't work i can't use it.
> > > there are many other people migrating from M$ that are going to be turned
> > > off by this.
> > > in my opinion it holds back the adoption rate for open-source
> > alternatives.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Obi-Wan <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> > Ubuntu has done better for me on hardware than anything else.  I tend
> > to
> > >> run
> > >> > pretty mainstream hardware, though.
> > >>
> > >> Ditto that.  I've tried SLED and Fedora on the desktop, and
> > >> RHEL/CentOS/SLES on servers, but Ubuntu desktop is my favorite
> > >> because it just works more often than anything else.
> > >>
> > >> I will admit that the orange color scheme is one of the first things
> > >> I change after install, though...
> > >>
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