Malke wrote:

> Thanks for the update and nice words, Gordon. You've reminded me that I
> need to look into Ubuntu. People seem to love it and I've got a testbed
> with extra hard drives. Then I'll know how to set up Samba in a
> Debian-based distro (or at least in that one).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Malke

It /seems/ remarkably easy - there's a GUI which is NOT dissimilar from
the XP "Right-click on network properties" where you can set the shared
directories and give the share a name, set the workgroup name, and
whether you use WINS or not. It even tells you that you don't have Samba
installed and proceeds to install it for you!

As for Ubuntu, I think it's one of the nicest distros I've used,
(started with Mandrake 7, gone thorough fedora core 3 and 4, with a look
at Mepis and Knoppix on the way!) and certainly is as good as say, W2K
for the desktop. The only fly in the ointment was that 5.10 was released
a tad before Open Office 2 final. But there's a way to add your own
repository for that as well. All in all a cool OS!


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