On Oct 24, 2003, at 2:58 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 08:12, betty wrote:
>> thanks to all of you who tried helping with my setup in samba of a
>> redhat/win network at home. after 8 more hours; and using /webmin/
>> instead of /samba/; my former instructor in linux was able to get the
>> 2
>> talking together.
>> problems were; security set too high in redhat (standard install),
>> old laptop w/windows 98 ; had to go to win xp,
>> path for shared files was too long ie; /home/stormy/filename, worked
>> better with just /shared filename.
>>
>> don't think i could help anyone else do this, the total time was 24
>> hours. linux needs to work this out for (simple) desktop users to
>> popularize it. :-P ( webmin was definitely easier to use than samba)
>> betty i
>> see you all saturday
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> I have some thoughts about this...
>
> 1a - Windows users have a very tough time setting up file sharing
> between themselves when they don't have the specific knowledge of how
> to
> do it.
>
> 1b - Macintosh users (remember the easy to use OS) have a very tough
> time setting up file sharing between themselves when they don't have
> the
> specific knowledge of how to do it.
>
> 1 - conclusion...setting up file sharing is never easy for people that
> haven't done it a few times. This ain't necessarily a Linux issue.
I just have to strongly disagree. My experience is that most mac users
figure out how to click the one button that lets them move files
between their laptop and their desktop. There is simply no reasonable
criteria of software design by which Linux is severely broken here.
I'll be glad to talk about this at length tomorrow.
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