SAMBA on Fedora 21

[Rick Stevens]

On 04/01/2015 05:53 AM, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I understand your explanation...  that is exactly  the answer to my
> question..
>
> Being I a beginner.., I just would understand better the philosophy of
> Linux.
> (I read that FEDORA  is for: Flexible Extensible Digital Object
> Repository Architecture)

Actually, "Fedora" is a tongue-in-cheek poke at the parent (Red Hat) 
company's logo (look at the Red Hat logo online...you'll see the man
in the logo is wearing a hat called a "Fedora").

Fedora is the alpha/beta, bleeding-edge version Red Hat Linux. You can
think of it as the experimental hamster for the next release of Red
Hat. Eventually, once a Fedora release is deemed "stable" enough, it's
frozen and becomes the latest Red Hat Linux release (I think RHEL7 is
based on Fedora 18...can't remember exactly).

> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
> <mailto:ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 09:03 +0300, Angelo Moreschini wrote:
>      >    - they are services (even if they are very common and important)
>     > that have to be installed...
>
>     Only if you need them.
>
>     Just looking at what you've mentioned, previously.  I'll make some
>     *general* comments about them.
>
>     SMART - if you're not actually going to pay attention to SMART warnings,
>     there's little point having this service.  A lot of people don't, so
>     there's no point them running it.
>
>     DHCP - if you're not meant to be a DHCP server (and you'd know about it
>     if you were), then you don't need, and don't want, the DHCP server
>     package installed and running.  Most people are DHCP clients, not
>     servers.  You get the client software installed, by default.
>
>     SAMBA - if you're not using SMB to share resources between computers
>     (files and folders, or printers using SMB instead of directly accessing
>     CUPS), then you don't need it.  For instance, if you only have one
>     computer, then you won't be trying to do this, and won't need it.  Or,
>     if *this* computer won't be sharing its resources to other computers,
>     you won't need it, either.
>
>     CUPS - if you don't have a printer, then you probably don't need it.  I
>     don't think you can remove it, not without also uninstalling a pile of
>     other stuff you need (like almost the entire system, in previous
>     releases of Fedora, and probably still does the same behaviour).  You
>     simply don't bother to turn the service on, if you don't need it.  There
>     is at least one case for using CUPS even if you don't have a printer,
>     and that's for using it to create PDF or PostScript files.  You can
>     print to file, instead of to a printer, to create one of the.  Though
>     some programs have their own export of PDF function, that doesn't make
>     use of CUPS.
>
>     --
>     tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
>
>     Linux 3.18.9-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 9 17:04:05 UTC 2015 i686
>
>     All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
>     trying
>     to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
>     public lists.
>
>     George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
>     a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
>
>     --
>     users mailing list
>     users at lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>     To unsubscribe or change subscription options:
>     https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>     Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
>     Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
>     Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
>
>
>
>


-- 
----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital    ricks at alldigital.com -
- AIM/Skype: therps2        ICQ: 22643734            Yahoo: origrps2 -
-                                                                    -
-       "As for me, I aspire to be the Walmart Greeter in Hell."     -
----------------------------------------------------------------------