[Samba] Comment from a Samba user - Samba
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> Hallo, Lucia,
>
> Du (lucia.frika) meintest am 03.07.08:
>
> > Hola, tengo un servidor con samba, openldap y bind9 pero no puedo
> > pinguear una maquina por el nombre, si ...
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[Samba] Comment from a Samba user
The following post was made today.
> Hallo, Lucia,
>
> Du (lucia.frika) meintest am 03.07.08:
>
> > Hola, tengo un servidor con samba, openldap y bind9 pero no puedo
> > pinguear una maquina por el nombre, si por la ip.
>
> That sounds like a misconfigured firewall. That's no samba problem.
>
> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut
The point I should like to make is that the statement
"That sounds like a misconfigured firewall."
may be HUGELY useful to the recipient.
When a prospective Samba user (or the prospective user of any other
piece of complex software that interfaces with other complex software)
is struggling to find out *his* installation
mistake/misunderstanding/etc., a comment such as the one above can be
all that is needed for enlightenment.
In the two or three days that I have been subscribed to this list I
have seen posts where the unfortunate poster had been banging his head
against a problem for, in one case, eight hours, in another case
thirteen hours. I do not remember if these particular people received
responses, and I have deleted the mailings. But I know from past
experiences of lists that posters of "obvious" or other "trivial"
problems often are ignored. In the case above, the poster was not
ignored; and he may not have realised that he was looking in the wrong
place.
The above is the comment; but in the interest of straightforwardness I
acknowledge that I have an axe to grind. I am a Samba user who has no
wish to become a Samba expert. And I have what appears to me to be a
problem with fairly clear data and, probably, a simple repair. But I
do not know what that repair is. I am confident that many subscribers
to this list can make good guesses as to what is wrong. But I have
had no reponse to my posting; which is frustrating.
dajo
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Re: [Samba] Comment from a Samba user
Hallo, David,
Du (dajo) meintest am 03.07.08:
> I am a Samba user who has
> no wish to become a Samba expert. And I have what appears to me to
> be a problem with fairly clear data and, probably, a simple repair.
> But I do not know what that repair is. I am confident that many
> subscribers to this list can make good guesses as to what is wrong.
> But I have had no reponse to my posting; which is frustrating.
That's frustrating - I know.
I'm using Samba for about 12 years, I've found some problems, too.
Sometimes nobody could help me, too.
Viele Gruesse!
Helmut
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Re: [Samba] Comment from a Samba user
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 08:49:00AM +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> > I am a Samba user who has
> > no wish to become a Samba expert. And I have what appears to me to
> > be a problem with fairly clear data and, probably, a simple repair.
> > But I do not know what that repair is. I am confident that many
> > subscribers to this list can make good guesses as to what is wrong.
> > But I have had no reponse to my posting; which is frustrating.
>
> That's frustrating - I know.
> I'm using Samba for about 12 years, I've found some problems, too.
> Sometimes nobody could help me, too.
And from a developer's point of view this is also a bit
difficult. At least for me I can say that I at least try to
help people on the mailing lists, but there are only 24
hours in a day, and there are also paying customers which
take precedence over voluntary help here, and sometimes I
enjoy time without a laptop :-). So from time to time I
point people at http://samba.org/samba/support where we list
companies who do paid support.
Volker
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