[KLUG Members] RE:Concerns about updating samba

Adam Tauno Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:44:07 -0500


>><rant/ The press is kind enough to tell everyone what they are missing
>>out on when they get XP home edition, but let me tell you from
>>first-hand experience, M$ put a lot of effort into making sure XP Pro
>>really sucks in a non-domain environment. You get two types of user
>>accounts administrator and non-administrator, and that is only the
>>beginning!/rant>
>Say, could we have a mini-presentation on these new domain groups? I use
>Unix->Samba groups a lot now, but that was set up with Win95 machines.
>Now with XP, I could use some more info on how to control and exploit
>these groups.

Erm.... groups are containers of other contexts, like users.  I think I'm
missing what it is your asking for?

>>> Hide files and veto files might be useful.
>>I take it that hide files and veto files are samba features.
>And again, a little brush-up would be nice.

Ah, this I get.  Maybe a collection of shorts about Samba.  People can pick a
feature - I'll do veto files.  Samba is so huge and elaborate that might not be
a bad way to cover things.  How does that sound?