Which distro to switch an FC3 samba server to?

Rich Burroughs rich at paranoid.org
Mon Dec 6 19:16:05 UTC 2004


A. Rick Anderson wrote:
> Since nothing I've been able to do on FC3 seems to provide consistent 
> samba service, and all the searches I've done indicate that FC3 doesn't 
> support samba, which distro do most folks recommend that would provide 
> the least painful transition?  I've been on RH8, RH9, FC1, and FC2.  
> I've dabbled with Mandrake for a while, and yddrasyle (sp?) years ago.  
> Fundamentally, what I'm looking for is a simple server, with samba 
> (shares/PDC), DNS, DHCP etc.

Any Linux distro should work for that. Mandrake has a pretty easy installer.

But what do you mean when you say FC3 doesn't "support" Samba? There are 
Samba packages available, they are part of the distribution.


Rich





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