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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