You are 100% dead on!
The only way we will get more users is to 'splain the basics, the
very things you mention here for starters!!
We need someone to present this kind of info at the PLUG West Oct Meeting.....
http://plug.phoenix.az.us/event/2010/10/27/day
lyle
At 06:21 PM 9/29/2010, you wrote:
>I am new to the group and to linux and thought I would give a
>newbie's opinion here. I am not concerned right now about kernel
>issues (directly) I am trying to resolve basic fundamental
>issues. Things like file and directory permissions, configuring
>your system for network connection (i.e. network addressing, setting
>up your domain, hostnames, nameserver resoltuon)
>
>While I know that any one of these can get very very complex, even
>just the first few steps have been pretty huge. But I want to
>learn. There is only so much you can learn in a linux forum
>depending almost entirely on the disposition of would-be experts and
>how they can communicate.
>
>My perspective is that even though I have worked in a highly
>technical field as a power user in Windows it is obvious pretty
>quickly when making decisions to configure even the smallest of home
>network systems that I have relied heavily on Microsoft to help me
>configure things.
>
>Consider that most homes in the US have more than 1 computer and
>many have more than 2. While just about anyone can download Ubuntu
>or (other distro) follow instructions and have a system up and
>running in 1/2 hour the minute they have to network 2 or more
>computers life just got way more complicated. In today's world were
>every home may have some sort of network, the amount of things I
>have had to learn and do to network my home systems would make Linux
>a deal breaker for many people.
>
>The frustration is that there is no place to go to get a general
>overview of what needs to be configured, and how to do it. I know
>there is no one answer, but there are best practices and they are
>going to differ depending on the need.
>
>I have been "mapping net work drives" in Windows for 15 years and
>never new until 3 months ago what SMB/CIFS was or Samba, or
>NFS, Having to understand Samba alone just to get Linux/Unix to
>talk to Windows or MAC can cause many to run screaming back to $MS
>with there wallets open.
>
>Maybe there needs to be a PLUG beginners group or a CONFIGFEST if
>this is too braud to tackle in presentations. But after the last 3
>months of trial and error configuration problems in my network at
>home I would eagerly sit through a 4 hour hands on well prepared
>discussion on file server configurations with SMB/CIFS and
>understanding how to get smb.conf and fstab and file permissions to
>work together.
>
>Sorry of the length. $MS is an addiction I am trying to beat everyday.
>
>James
>
>
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