Debian Updates

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

At 14:59 26/11/2003 -0500, Keith Mastin wrote:
[snip]
>I will admit that maybe you have a point if you can show me a gui that can
>configure _every_ aspect of a program to the same degree of certainty that
>the command line can. Samba has about a thousand or so options. How many
>of these are configurable in SWAT or WebMin?

Hi Keith,

I met John Terpstra, one of the founders of the Samba Project, a few years 
ago at a conference and was chatting with him about how much fun Samba 
configuration can be. He said that SWAT is a definitive configuration tool 
for Samba and that is was designed to create optimized smb.conf files. He 
said most people who tweak smb.conf manually, end up creating something 
that is less than optimal. He gave an example of a Samba server with a huge 
number of workstations authenticating against Samba and how by using SWAT, 
they managed to overcome the performance issues simply because there were 
fewer lines in smb.conf afterwards. If John Terpstra says it is so, I would 
be inclined to believe him.

Regards,

Clifford Ilkay
Dinamis Corporation
3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M4N 3P6

Tel: 416-410-3326 

--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml