samba and windows xp

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From: Gavin Estey
Subject: samba and windows xp
Date: 05:09 on 07 Sep 2003
Firstly I must commend the samba people for *trying* to make things 
easy. I managed to get their web based admin to work which is 
marginally better than trying to edit the five million settings 
manually. The documentation is surprisingly good, if not good enough to 
explain how to make the damn thing work. Of course half the complexity 
is because they have to interact with the shit that the fucktards at 
microsoft consider software.

I hate microsoft because they have hidden the networking settings to 
make it harder to work out what the fuck this netbios crap is, how to 
possible force it to go over tcp/ip, etc. Somehow my wins name 
resolution is fucked or something. Searching on google has found some 
random hacks that have made it work for other people but they seem to 
want to get XP to join their linux pdc or some other madness, I did 
them anyway because it was fun. Still didn't work.

Anyway why is software so fucking hard? All I want to do is to share 
some files over the network. I have considered NFS but that's just such 
a pit of hate I don't know where to start.

Gavin.

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