Re: a question about SAMBA!!!
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, George Bonser wrote:
> I don't know, all it took here is changing a couple of options in the
> kernel config and a recompile. About 5 lines in rc.local (could heve been
> reduced to three) and a reboot. Not any trouble. Probably easier than
> setting up Apache as a proxy and the users can query a remote POP3 server
> for their mail.
I will concede that it is easily done. Then they can download every
RUNME.EXE file that they are offered and get their system totally screwed
up. That's what I mean when I say it's a PITA situation. You try to give
them a good firewall (w95 definitely needs one) and they go ahead and do
something really dumb.
As far as POP3 goes, there is an advantage to using the Linux box for
email. If a user has more than one remote email account, he can have
fetchmail or popclient pick it all up and put it in his inbox on the Linux
server. That way he can retrieve it all using netscape on the windows
machine. If he uses netscape 4, he can easily filter the mail into
netscape folders. I set this up for a few people who didn't mind the
price of Eudora Pro, but preferred to keep everything under netscape. I
guess the concept of launching 2 programs was overwhelming. Makes you
wonder why we are so critical of the lousy w95 multitasking with so many
single-tasking users out there.
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