Hmm,, pretty sure I remember samba working.. It was a matter of no
resolution on the win98 box
that was causing the problem. 4 hours was not spent.. more like 1.. and
samba was working one direction within 15mins.. It was the windows box that
had the problem.. This is my first reply to these letters so I hope this
doesnt sound bad but if I cant refer to myself as "network people" then
please someone shoot me cause thats how I make my living ;)
-Shawn
----- Original Message -----
From: "SOTL" <sotl155360@earthlink.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>; ""Robin \"Roblimo\" Miller"" <robin@roblimo.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hardware vendors in town
> Robin:
>
> Maybe you could do future articles on this.
>
> Like most business types I am trying to form an office network. The
> advantages for this are obvious; the difficulties less so.
>
> For this network there would be a minimum of 20 to 30 computers if the
> company grew to its practical limits in one office. If the company was
bigger
> we would have to open more offices so this is a realistic upper limit on
the
> number of computers. A more piratical lever would be 10 to 15 if everybody
> had a computer. This for a number of business reasons is counter
productive
> so even this level is probable excessive. So this is a small network.
>
> Next all of this equipment is located in the same confined office.
> Implication, there is no need to have internal security in the realm of
> encrypted files on the lan. Restrictions of who may view others files
would
> be highly desirable but not encrypted logins or encrypted files.
>
> At todays Dunedial Linux meeting 10+ 2ND and 3RD level people could not
> network 1 Linux box using Samba and 1 Win 98 box.
> By 2 and 3 level I mean 0 = zero level knowledge and 5 = Alan Cox & Linus
> level. There were no network people in this group of linux geeks.
>
> This combined group of 10+ linux people failes to make one - 2 computer
> network work in 4 hours.
>
> The point being that if 10+ 2ND and 3RD level linux people can not put
> together 1 network in about 4 hours then the HOWTOs are to vague and the
> requirement to complicated for the average half claim baked small computer
> guru to even consider networking a small office.
>
> Thanks for your ear.
>
> Frank
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