Linux Format mag. article F14 vs ubuntu

[Robert Myers]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

>
> I find that Ubuntu has an astounding number of documentation pages on
> various wikis that are often out of date, do not track the upstream
> packagers and sometimes add to the confusion of the users and while it
> may work for some, it also fails and sometimes fails miserably for
> others.
>
> Samba itself is an extremely complicated package because it is so
> versatile. It operates both as a server and as a client, emulates
> methods/protocols from Windows 98 through Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista
> and now Windows 7. It offers a variety of authentication systems whether
> local, LDAP, an AD server etc. As a Samba team member, it seems foolish
> for any distribution to put into place a customized smb.conf on each
> install but again, each distribution is certainly free to do as they see
> fit.
>

If Ballmer/Gates, Inc. could have found a way to do it, samba wouldn't
work at all.  No complaints to the samba team, which has done great
things.

As to documentation, I can't even imagine how most of the world deals
with any of it.  I no longer use the official documentation or the
built-in "help" button for *anything*.  The "help" button is google
plus some smarts about searching.

I suspect that computer documentation is now actually viral
(person-to-person within communities), and that my old-fashioned need
to rely on anything but a friend to show me how to do it is a measure
of how isolated I am.

Robert.