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Member since:2008-06-19
I would disagree with you as a former network administrator and opensuse user. I use a mi of sles and opensuse for servers and have had a great amount of success. As for samba, its the same samba on both machines.
opensuse 11.0 is 3.2.0 and
fedora 9 is 3.2.0pre3 (assuming it was undated after release)
Member since:2008-07-11
Well then explain how I'm supposed to use the broken interfaces in KDE which always worked in the previous OpenSuse distros from 9.3 until 10.2 to set up shares and connect only certain users to those shares with proper permissions.
I fail to see how it's done like it used to be. I reckon that Fedora would still work like it always has like that.
I don't care about command line and all that rubbish. We don't have a lot of trained IT staff, we need stuff done fast. Don't give me that crap about CLI being quicker, or easier or anything. It just isn't. You point, click and go. That's it. The point is to minimise mistakes not make things complicated. Whatever happened to keeping things simple.
EDIT: Fixed spelling
Edited 2008-07-11 05:32 UTC
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2008-07-11
I wanted to use it as a Samba server but it's all horribly incomplete. The shares sort of work, the printer connects, but as far as I know only in Vista - the only Vista box we have, the rest are all XP and quite frankly the headache inducing torment of the samba user account handling is horrid.
Suse 9.3 when I tried it was so much better but it seems they've really let the server side down too much since then. It used to be basic, like Ubuntu but robust like a true UNIX machine should be. That's what it should be, maybe they've aimed it at the desktop market too heavily now at the expense of versatility? At least it's stable, they seem to get that bit right.
Now it just seems to sort of be on the same track as Fedora...all glitz and glamour and bleeding edge but nothing solid underneath...but at least Fedora acts more complete, esp. as a server. I think we'll stick to a distro that works as a decent Samba server. I was lead to believe that Suse was a good server distro, whoever says so isn't a network administrator in a business. I signed up today just to post this, that's how fed up I am with it. No I didn't RTFA coz I don't care anymore.
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