Samba - Sharing files with XP and missing files

[William Hooper]

YigalB said:
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> =================================================
> root at localhost downloads]# samba-swat bash: samba-swat: command not found

I'm not sure where you got that idea from.

> [root at localhost downloads]# up2date -i samba-swat
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/fedora-core-2
> using mirror:
> http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fedora/linux/core/2/i3
> 86/os/
> http://fedora.redhat.com/download/up2date-mirrors/updates-released-fc2
> using mirror:
> http://mirror.eas.muohio.edu/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/i386/
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> raise URLError(err) urllib2.URLError: <urlopen error (111, 'Connection
> refused')> [root at localhost downloads]#

"Connection refused".  Pretty plain.  That mirror has been having issues. 
Try again.

>>
>>> Another thing that bother me is why doesn't RPM go and take the
>>>
> needed
>>> files automatically ? I mean all the information is there: the names,
>>>
> the
>>> version..
>>
>> That's what yum, up2date, and apt (not playing favorites, did I forget
>> anyone?) are for.
>
> [<Yigal>] so my question is: why doesn't RPM call those functions with
> the missing files as parameters?

Solving dependancies is the job of the dep solver (yum, etc.).  RPM's job
is package management.

-- 
William Hooper