11/1    What version of Linux/Unix does Samba test on before releasing
        to the public?
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5/9     Networking Vista computers together is a steaming pile of shit.
        What the fuck was MS thinking?  Fuck!  fuck.  (fuck).  blah.
        \_ So is networking vista to XP and to Samba.
           \_ Heck, networking XP to XP was awful, I had kinda assumed
              they would fix it in Vista.
              \_ They need to keep it awful to ensure backward compatibility.
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10/30   Anyone have recommendations for a reasonably stable filesystem that
        I can use on large (~150GB) external USB drives, that's read/
        writeable by XP, MacOS and possibly FreeBSD/Linux?  -John
        \_ If you want write access from all three, I think you're stuck with
           fat32.
           \_ Which BTW limits you to files of 4GB or less, so don't think you
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7/15    Mi comrades, how to samba mount on MacOS X? Spasibo!
        \_ Learn proper grammar first, you fucking immigrant
           \_ I guess you work in a company which doesn't have native English
              speakers in the QA department who are too lazy to write
              understandable bug reports.  Those reports drive me crazy.
        \_ Tovarich, depends on whether you're doing workgroup or domain
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3/20    is it possible to set linux to be case insensitivity temporarily?
        \_ The easiest way to do this is to run samba, and access your
           files through smbmount.
        \_ don't have an easy answer but WHY do you want to do this?
        \_ The linux kernel?  Probably no easy way, no.  A linux distribution?
           Which one?  For what application?  Why do you need to do this (there
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12/22   On XP, I have folders using Chinese characters. I also have
        file names using Chinese characters. When I do a samba mount
        from my Linux to XP, I can do everything if the file name
        isn't using Chinese characters. How do I get around this
        restriction? Thanks.
        \_ you need to be specific on your XP's file system.  FAT uses
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10/31   CIFS sure seems to work as advertised alot better than NFS, isn't
        this a pretty big advantage of living in MS land vs. linux/solaris??
        \_ I'm going to cry.
            \_ please don't cry.  Tell us why this makes you want to cry.
               \_ I'm not the one who originally said "cry" but when I was
                  at Decru several times a day I would hear the engrs
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10/9    Dear MOTD, I'm looking to give a bunch of windows users access to a
        filesharing solution on a unix box.  They're not terribly technical,
        and have mainly browser access.  Is there some sort of open source
        web based toy running over SSL that mimicks what they would see on a
        windows fileshare, with drag&drop/copy&paste?  -John
        \_ WebDAV on Apache might work for you. I think that recent
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7/12    Your favorite O'Reilly books online, for free. This includes
        big titles on Java, Perl, networking, UNIX, Oracle, Linux, and Samba.
        http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly
        and here
        <DEAD>www.hackemate.com.ar/textos/O'reilly%20-%20Complete%20Bookshelf<DEAD>
        \_ With all the political trolling that's been going on around
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4/11    What's the best way to transfer files between Macs and PCs? I don't
        want to install NFS (too heavy weight), there must be another way.
        Like, I don't want to use SCP because it doesn't do recursive copy...
            \_ my problem with WinSCP is that it doesn't like to copy file
               names with foreign letters (accented e, Ooo, etc). What other
               alternatives are there besides WinSCP which I like a lot?
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4/5     For those laser printers with multiple interfaces (ethernet, usb,
        parallel), can you connect different computers to different
        interfaces at the same time?  I am interested in one of those
        multifunction printers.  I want the printer on ethernet for
        multiple computers, but also want to use scan and fax functions
        (which only works over usb) on one of the computers.
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1/6     A relative is opening a small (family) store and asks me what
        software can be used to keep track of everything, like inventory,
        sales, suppliers, statistics etc.  Are there good and cheap commericial
        (database?) programs for this?  Can she use some open source solution?
        Right now she uses a Mac though that can change if necessary.
        \_ While I hate it with every bit of my soul, for small business,
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