Which distro to switch an FC3 samba server to?

Jay Fenlason fenlason at redhat.com
Mon Dec 6 19:37:57 UTC 2004


On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:05:02PM -0500, 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.
> 
> I've enjoyed RedHat distros, especially the industry support, but a 
> distro that doesn't support samba is a non-starter for me.  
> Unfortunately, backing up to FC2 isn't really a workable option.  It 
> took the store I bought the machine from (three months ago) over a week 
> to get FC2 to recognize the built-in network card and the cdrom burner.

Have you reported the problems you've encountered at
bugzilla.redhat.com ?  A quick query isn't turning up any bug reports
from you.

I try to make Samba work on Fedora Core, but my chance of seeing bug
reports that aren't in Bugzilla is depressingly low.

			-- JF




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