This is just my point, though; why all this hacking to get this working? The
experts in the community (or RedHat) could set it up right to start with.
Customer / Client supplies data needed (NT domain name and credentials) then
voila!
You know, the more you do FOR the user the more the user LIKES you. And it
is within the scope of Fedora to make a great desktop product eventually,
right?
I am relaying FEEDBACK to this list. From several people; current IT people
(MS based as most are) and end users, and managers... Learning is expensive.
I was hoping that Fedora as a project would appreciate feedback from
non-Linux admins.
Stephan
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Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:46 AM
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On Thursday 15 January 2004 16:17, stephan schutter wrote:
Sorry about the tone... I a relaying my managers questions... They
want
something that just works... They read about Linux and how great it is;
but
this does not match their experience when sitting down in front of a
Linux
machine.
...
I am frequently challenged by managers and my colleagues: "why
do they
have
to make it so difficult?"
Its not difficult so much as different. If instead of getting you to manage
this transition, who clearly are also coming to Linux for the first time,
your manager had taken steps to give you the support of an experienced Unix
sysadmin, things would be smoother. Doesn't sound nice of them to throw you
in at the deep end alone and then start sniping at you. Would they do this
with any other technology, like a new language?
This makes Linux a hard sell for me.
Its nice if we can convert people to Linux, but nobody gets a piece of the
action out of it :-)
So: why not have a default configuration that works? By default, when
you
install FC1, FC1 has these issues:
Worked super duper for me out of the box. However I am not trying to get it
to talk to the proprietary stuff you are, all the other machines here are
Linux with one XP running under vmware (which talks on Samba just fine).
Because of this I personally am unlikely to be much more help to you.
1. When clicking on the network browser, you can not actually browse
the
network. Instead you get an error about wins servers... Windows works
fine.
Dunno... but this would be a question that the Samba people will much better
be able to answer than the Fedora people. (BTW reading your description it
is unclear if the network browser is on the client or server machine. ) Here
are the Samba mls:
http://lists.samba.org/mailman/
Have a search around first before asking.
2. Name resolution does not work correctly because FC1 does not pick
up
all
the information from the DHCP (win2k DDNS) servers (wins, multiple
search
domains etc.) I am sure that somehow it is Microsoft's fault, but it needs
to work none the less to be accepted.
I see... your DHCP server has non standard extensions. I would imagine you
could work around this to some extent by sorting out your smb.conf /
/etc/hosts / /etc/resolv.conf with the right data. But hard as it might be
for your manager to comprehend, it might be better not to use all that
nonstandard crud in the first place.
Are you aware of SWAT? This is a browser-based configurator for Samba. I
recommend it highly
http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.os/samba-swat-3.0.0-15.i
386.rpm
install it with rpm -i samba-swat-3.0.0-15.i386.rpm
then
service swat start
point your browser to
http://localhost:901
username root password <your root password>
You might find this a comforting port in the storm.
3. Checking the SMB authentication box and entering the right domain
name
and server etc. does not result in being able to log on using the AD
credentials. It is misleading to have such a dialogue box that does not do
what it says... or have any information of what else to do...
Another job for the Samba MLs. All I can say is don't imagine MSFT make it
easy for people to work with their proprietary and undocumented formats, and
you'll catch more samba-bees with honey than vinegar :-)
- -Andy
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