[olug] samba headache in ubuntu 8.04 laptop

[Barry Von Ahsen]

I've always used easy urpmi to setup my mandriva repos:
http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

plf will contain the non-free stuff (lame, decss, etc) - probably what 
you're looking for from livna

-barry


woodsjay at cox.net wrote:
> 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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