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Re: [Wlug] Re: Wlug Digest, Vol 7, Issue 11

by Josh Huber

Thumper <postgres(a)sedo.net> writes: > On the other hand I have many good things to say about RCN. Fast, > not bound to specific MAC address, great uptime, IP addresses don't > change very often... Grass is much greener on the RCN side of the > fence. At least from my vantage point. Yes, I've had excellent service from RCN. I even have a static IP address, and the connection has been up for ~8 months no with NO issues. Assuming you pay for a static ip, they block nothing. (otherwise they block outbound SMTP to anywhere but their SMTP server, and various inbound ports). Unfortunately, I think RCN isn't available in the Worcester area, is it? hmmmm....doesn't look too good :P -----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<-----------8<---- Congratulations! RCN provides service to your area! Your Address: 9 GOULDING ST worcester, MA 01609 The following services are available to the address shown above: Dialup Internet -- Josh Huber

May 20, 2004

Re: Wlug Digest, Vol 7, Issue 11

by Thumper

Since I have no good things to say about Comcast/ATT, I refuse to say anything about that rotten, thieving company that will never get any more of my business. On the other hand I have many good things to say about RCN. Fast, not bound to specific MAC address, great uptime, IP addresses don't change very often... Grass is much greener on the RCN side of the fence. At least from my vantage point. > > I have Comcast (AT&T Broadband) in southern NH and have nothing but > > good things to say about them. In the 3 years I had them, I think I > > can count the number of outages on 1 hand and they were always very > > brief. > > > > > > > > > I've heard nothing but overwhelming complaints about Comcast. I have had > > > email contact with dozens of municipalities who use Comcast for Internet > > > service. Things like "weeks without service" is a common theme. I can't > > > remember hearing anything good about them. > > > > > > - Rob > > >

May 20, 2004

Vonage

by Dwight A. Ernest

We use Vonage at home. It works well for us. We have two lines, one for FAX and one for voice (the single Cisco box can support two lines). Our connectivity is through Charter Communications; we're in Boylston; the service we have is 768 down, 256 up. Keller, Tim wrote: > Does anybody on the WLUG list use Vonage? I constantly see banner ads for > them, but I don't know anybody who uses them. -- Dwight A. Ernest, dwight at significant dot com GPG key A6999567 Cell: +1-508-523-1416 FAX: +1-978-405-2504 YIM: dwight_ernest RHCE #803004293310030 http://significant.com/~dwight/ KA2CNN Papa, partner, pilot, net geek, sysadmin, consultant, cohouser.

May 19, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Comcast experiences Plug for Speakeasy.net

by Keller, Tim

Does anybody on the WLUG list use Vonage? I constantly see banner ads for them, but I don't know anybody who uses them. Later, Tim. "I can not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presents danger, the solution is ignorance" - Isaac Asimov -----Original Message----- From: Josh Huber [mailto:huber@alum.wpi.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:41 AM To: wlug(a)mail.wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences Plug for Speakeasy.net Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org> writes: > the trouble is that if everyone has a cellphone and thus the local > line never gets used, you have to add $30 to the price of dsl since > that's how much a local line will run you -mike Check for the no long distance, local metered plans. I had this (before I canceled my phone line) and it cost $10 from verizon. After the excessive taxes and fees, it came out to around $16, if I recall. All outgoing calls cost money, so you really only want to do this if you don't use the phone for voice... -- Josh Huber _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

May 19, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Charter experiences? -was:Comcast experiences ?

by Baris Hasdemir

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 09:09, Martin, Eric wrote: > Um...what package did you have with Verizon / Charter? Last I checked, > verizon was 49.99, and Charter only adds on $35 to your cable bill if you > already have any form of cable (or it costs an extra 10 or 11 if you > don't)...Granted those are base rates, but...'sides, buy the bridge, you can > get one from Best Buy for $60 or less if you get rebates.... > > Eric > Verizon 1.5Mbits/s is $35 for a year now. Charter was 2Mbits/s for $43.28 including tax and $2 or $3/month rent for the cable modem. I guess they are supplying 3Mbits/s for the same price now. I did not have any form of tv subscription, so charter package was only high speed cable service.

May 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences Plug for Speakeasy.net

by Josh Huber

Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org> writes: > the trouble is that if everyone has a cellphone and thus the local > line never gets used, you have to add $30 to the price of dsl since > that's how much a local line will run you -mike Check for the no long distance, local metered plans. I had this (before I canceled my phone line) and it cost $10 from verizon. After the excessive taxes and fees, it came out to around $16, if I recall. All outgoing calls cost money, so you really only want to do this if you don't use the phone for voice... -- Josh Huber

May 19, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ?

by Hemstreet, Jeffrey L (Jeffrey)

I have & like Charter... I had the same MAC problem 0->O when they typed it in. I've had less than 6 outages at an average of about day each time over the past 3 years. Tech support can take forever to get to since you call into level 1 and they ask the "is your PC plugged into the modem?" questions, but the second-level support is pretty good. Speed is good. 768K base service, but some people are getting 1.5-2 in areas that aren't limited. (My loop is pretty busy, but I still get a good connection.) jeff -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Martin, Eric Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:07 AM To: 'Worcester Linux Users Group' Subject: RE: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ? Charter's not too bad here...Sometimes their tech support is bad (but who's isn't) eg took me a week or 2 to convice them that they wrote my MAC for my bridge wrong, and that was why I couldn't get on the net...As far as speed I think it's fine. Agree? Disagree? -----Original Message----- From: Mike Frysinger [mailto:vapier@gentoo.org] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 3:06 AM To: wlug(a)wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ? err, replace every occurence of 'comcast' with 'charter' :) -mike _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

May 19, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Charter experiences? -was:Comcast experiences ?

by Martin, Eric

Um...what package did you have with Verizon / Charter? Last I checked, verizon was 49.99, and Charter only adds on $35 to your cable bill if you already have any form of cable (or it costs an extra 10 or 11 if you don't)...Granted those are base rates, but...'sides, buy the bridge, you can get one from Best Buy for $60 or less if you get rebates.... Eric -----Original Message----- From: Baris Hasdemir [mailto:penguen@hasdemir.com] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 10:22 AM To: WLUG Subject: Re: [Wlug] Charter experiences? -was:Comcast experiences ? On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 03:04, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i was talking with a guy who claimed comcast provided great cable > service in > worcester and was basically way better than anything dsl could offer (i use > speakeasy myself and love it). seeing as how he is a non-computer person, i > took his opinion with a large grain of salt ... > > it did get me wondering though as ive never used comcast in worcester > myself, > just in holden (and it sucked a lot), how have other people got along with > comcast here ? looking for the standard fare, speeds/tech support/response > times/etc... > -mike > I did not like Charter's service very much when I switched to it from Verizon DSL. Charter charges ~10 dollars more than Verizon DSL including a rent for cable modem but they gave us 2Mbits (I Think they're now giving 3Mbits) Besides the higher bandwidth, most of the time especially in the evenings I experienced latencies, if it's the right word to use. For example, I click on an ordinary link, wait for sometime and *then* it finally starts loading which is fast, of course. So I got back to Verizon again. I have 1.5Mbits and I'm fine enough. Regarding the customer support, all I can say is they did not refund anything when I canceled my subscription in 20 days. Neither the installation fee(although I had to do it myself, since there was no working version of windows) nor usage fee. baris _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

May 19, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ?

by Martin, Eric

Charter's not too bad here...Sometimes their tech support is bad (but who's isn't) eg took me a week or 2 to convice them that they wrote my MAC for my bridge wrong, and that was why I couldn't get on the net...As far as speed I think it's fine. Agree? Disagree? -----Original Message----- From: Mike Frysinger [mailto:vapier@gentoo.org] Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 3:06 AM To: wlug(a)wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ? err, replace every occurence of 'comcast' with 'charter' :) -mike _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

May 19, 2004

RE: [Wlug] SuSE 9.1

by Martin, Eric

Yeah, I ran 2.6.(can't remember patch) on my laptop for a while, and `ifconfig eth0' worked fine...One cool thing is that 2.6 did get pcmcia working, although it ran dog slow with some stuff...maybe I had to recompile a bunch of apps? I'll post a few when I get to play with 2.6 again Eric -----Original Message----- From: mike(a)beakerware.net [mailto:mike@beakerware.net] Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 10:11 PM To: Andy Stewart Cc: Worcester Linux Users Group Subject: Re: [Wlug] SuSE 9.1 > 7) The network devices are a little weird in 2.6. There isn't an > "ifup eth0" > or "ifup eth1" like there used to be. On my system, its "ifup > eth-id-00:00:00:00:00:00" (fill in your MAC address). Once its up and you > see it with ifconfig, the "standard" ifdown command works as always. While I'm not 100% familiar with SuSE, does your network interface appear if you do an 'ifconfig -a' before an ifup is issued? I think its a SuSE thing, not a 2.6 thing your seeing, maybe because SuSE doesn't load the network card module until an 'ifup' is done? -mike _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

May 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences Plug for Speakeasy.net

by Mike Frysinger

On Wednesday 19 May 2004 08:52 am, Dallas Stafford wrote: > Speakeasy.net has good bandwidth and service but the most endearing quality > is that they encourage reselling the service to the neighbors. You can > become an ISP or WISP. If you like, they will even take care of the billing > for you and give you 1/2 the charges. i know, i said i use speakeasy currently ;) the trouble is that if everyone has a cellphone and thus the local line never gets used, you have to add $30 to the price of dsl since that's how much a local line will run you -mike

May 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences Plug for Speakeasy.net

by Dallas Stafford

Speakeasy.net has good bandwidth and service but the most endearing quality is that they encourage reselling the service to the neighbors. You can become an ISP or WISP. If you like, they will even take care of the billing for you and give you 1/2 the charges. I think they would rather sell T1 service and let us take care of the local neighborhood. Service can quickly become free if you serve a few neighbors on your LocalArea Network. Dallas Stafford, E-Mail: dallas(a)speakeasy.net Cell 774-253-2260 Worcester, MA, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lund" <jim(a)fiero.net> To: "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Monday, 17 May, 2004 21:28 Subject: Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ? > I have Comcast (AT&T Broadband) in southern NH and have nothing but > good things to say about them. In the 3 years I had them, I think I > can count the number of outages on 1 hand and they were always very > brief. > > > > > I've heard nothing but overwhelming complaints about Comcast. I have had > > email contact with dozens of municipalities who use Comcast for Internet > > service. Things like "weeks without service" is a common theme. I can't > > remember hearing anything good about them. > > > > - Rob > > > > > > At 08:49 AM 5/16/2004, you wrote: > > > > >On Sunday 16 May 2004 3:06 am, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > err, replace every occurence of 'comcast' with 'charter' :) > > > > -mike > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wlug mailing list > > > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > > >Charter is great in Chelmsford. Err, replace every occurrence of 'charter' > > >with 'comcast'. > > > > > >:-) > > > > > >-- > > >Andy Stewart, Founder > > >Worcester Linux Users' Group > > >Worcester, MA USA > > >http://www.wlug.org > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > >Wlug mailing list > > >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >

May 19, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ?

by Jim Lund

I have Comcast (AT&T Broadband) in southern NH and have nothing but good things to say about them. In the 3 years I had them, I think I can count the number of outages on 1 hand and they were always very brief. > I've heard nothing but overwhelming complaints about Comcast. I have had > email contact with dozens of municipalities who use Comcast for Internet > service. Things like "weeks without service" is a common theme. I can't > remember hearing anything good about them. > > - Rob > > > At 08:49 AM 5/16/2004, you wrote: > > >On Sunday 16 May 2004 3:06 am, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > err, replace every occurence of 'comcast' with 'charter' :) > > > -mike > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wlug mailing list > > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > >Charter is great in Chelmsford. Err, replace every occurrence of 'charter' > >with 'comcast'. > > > >:-) > > > >-- > >Andy Stewart, Founder > >Worcester Linux Users' Group > >Worcester, MA USA > >http://www.wlug.org > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Wlug mailing list > >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

May 18, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ?

by rb

I've heard nothing but overwhelming complaints about Comcast. I have had email contact with dozens of municipalities who use Comcast for Internet service. Things like "weeks without service" is a common theme. I can't remember hearing anything good about them. - Rob At 08:49 AM 5/16/2004, you wrote: >On Sunday 16 May 2004 3:06 am, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > err, replace every occurence of 'comcast' with 'charter' :) > > -mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > >Charter is great in Chelmsford. Err, replace every occurrence of 'charter' >with 'comcast'. > >:-) > >-- >Andy Stewart, Founder >Worcester Linux Users' Group >Worcester, MA USA >http://www.wlug.org > > >_______________________________________________ >Wlug mailing list >Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org >http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com) Version: 6.0.687 / Virus Database: 448 - Release Date: 5/16/2004

May 18, 2004

RE: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ?

by Doug Geiger

I've been using charter for almost 2 years now. Although about six months ago they seemed to be doing a lot of upgrades (the base service now is supposed to be 2MB/s), and we were losing connection almost every weekend, it seems to be much better right now. I did also find that a simple complaint got me free month(s) of service, as long as I waited on hold long enough, and complained loud enough. It ends up being ~$50 if you choose to rent the cable modem from them (you can obviously buy your own down at Best Buy, or CompUSA), but it's nice that they foot the bill to replace the modem if anything seems to be wrong with it. The main thing I miss from DSL is a static IP, and a TOS that is server-friendly. But, I knew that when I signed up, and in general, I'm happy with the service. -- Doug Geiger runexe(a)ece.wpi.edu runexe(a)wpi.edu runexe(a)ieee.org dgeiger(a)alum.wpi.edu -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org] On Behalf Of Mike Frysinger Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 3:06 AM To: wlug(a)wlug.org Subject: Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ? err, replace every occurence of 'comcast' with 'charter' :) -mike _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

May 17, 2004

Reminder: Upcoming WLUG Meeting

by Andy Stewart

Hi Everybody, Its that time again...time for our monthly WLUG meeting, which will be on Wednesday, May 19th at 7:00 PM in the usual place (see website for directions). At this meeting, our own Tim Keller will give a talk which he describes thus: ---start Tim--- Here's the title. Creating and Rendering 3D Objects in Linux using OSS tools. Here's the blurb. I'll be giving a general talk about some of the open source tools that are currently available on linux and using them to create 3D objects, scenes and animations. I'll show the pros, cons, cool features and short comings of these non commercial products. ---end Tim--- After the meeting, we'll go out for food & drink. I'm wondering if we want Mexican this month. We can decide at the meeting. See ya later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

May 17, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Charter experiences? -was:Comcast experiences ?

by Baris Hasdemir

On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 03:04, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i was talking with a guy who claimed comcast provided great cable service in > worcester and was basically way better than anything dsl could offer (i use > speakeasy myself and love it). seeing as how he is a non-computer person, i > took his opinion with a large grain of salt ... > > it did get me wondering though as ive never used comcast in worcester myself, > just in holden (and it sucked a lot), how have other people got along with > comcast here ? looking for the standard fare, speeds/tech support/response > times/etc... > -mike > I did not like Charter's service very much when I switched to it from Verizon DSL. Charter charges ~10 dollars more than Verizon DSL including a rent for cable modem but they gave us 2Mbits (I Think they're now giving 3Mbits) Besides the higher bandwidth, most of the time especially in the evenings I experienced latencies, if it's the right word to use. For example, I click on an ordinary link, wait for sometime and *then* it finally starts loading which is fast, of course. So I got back to Verizon again. I have 1.5Mbits and I'm fine enough. Regarding the customer support, all I can say is they did not refund anything when I canceled my subscription in 20 days. Neither the installation fee(although I had to do it myself, since there was no working version of windows) nor usage fee. baris

May 16, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ?

by Andy Stewart

On Sunday 16 May 2004 3:06 am, Mike Frysinger wrote: > err, replace every occurence of 'comcast' with 'charter' :) > -mike > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug Charter is great in Chelmsford. Err, replace every occurrence of 'charter' with 'comcast'. :-) -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

May 16, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Comcast experiences ?

by Mike Frysinger

err, replace every occurence of 'comcast' with 'charter' :) -mike

May 16, 2004

Comcast experiences ?

by Mike Frysinger

i was talking with a guy who claimed comcast provided great cable service in worcester and was basically way better than anything dsl could offer (i use speakeasy myself and love it). seeing as how he is a non-computer person, i took his opinion with a large grain of salt ... it did get me wondering though as ive never used comcast in worcester myself, just in holden (and it sucked a lot), how have other people got along with comcast here ? looking for the standard fare, speeds/tech support/response times/etc... -mike

May 16, 2004

Re: [Wlug] SuSE 9.1

by mike＠beakerware.net

> 7) The network devices are a little weird in 2.6. There isn't an "ifup eth0" > or "ifup eth1" like there used to be. On my system, its "ifup > eth-id-00:00:00:00:00:00" (fill in your MAC address). Once its up and you > see it with ifconfig, the "standard" ifdown command works as always. While I'm not 100% familiar with SuSE, does your network interface appear if you do an 'ifconfig -a' before an ifup is issued? I think its a SuSE thing, not a 2.6 thing your seeing, maybe because SuSE doesn't load the network card module until an 'ifup' is done? -mike

May 16, 2004

SuSE 9.1

by Andy Stewart

HI everybody, I've received my copy of SuSE 9.1 and I've gotten it installed on my laptop. Here are my thoughts so far. 0) SuSE 9.1 comes on 2 double-sided DVDs and 5 CDs. There are 64 and 32-bit versions, so one must used the proper side of the DVD. 1) It took 2 hours to upgrade from SuSE 9.0 to SuSE 9.1 on my 1 GHz Sony Vaio laptop using the DVD. That seemed long to me. 2) It uses the 2.6.4 kernel. One new feature of that kernel caused me some temporary grief since I didn't understand what it was doing. The "subfs" filesystem type is used for removeable media. The user doesn't need to mount any CD or floppy, just put in the medium and reference it with "ls /media/ floppy" or whatever. The operating system figures out that the medium isn't mounted, mounts it, carries out your wish, and then unmounts it. Sometimes, I find this a bit annoying, but perhaps I'm just not yet used to it. 3) The ACPI power management on my laptop now actually works! Well, it works for the root user, anyway (kpowersave). I actually got about 45 minutes on a battery (instead of 10). The PCMCIA wireless card really suck the life out of the battery when used! I'm diving into the code to figure out why kpowersave won't work for J-random-user. There's probably some executable that needs setuid root or some such. I suspect I can be more agressive about power saving to get close to 60 minutes out of it. 4) I said "bye-bye" to the ide-scsi module, especially after reading some notes about Linus' opinion of that module and the author of cdrecord. Things work fine without it. 5) Sound works great after one simple command. 6) I got wireless, grub, the printer, the hard wired network, and even (I think) the onboard modem working very easily. I've never had the onboard modem working previously. 7) The network devices are a little weird in 2.6. There isn't an "ifup eth0" or "ifup eth1" like there used to be. On my system, its "ifup eth-id-00:00:00:00:00:00" (fill in your MAC address). Once its up and you see it with ifconfig, the "standard" ifdown command works as always. 8) SuSE 9.1 comes with KDE 3.2.1, with which I haven't yet played. Thunderstorm coming....singing of for now....... -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

May 16, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Ftp & Samba questions

by Marc Hughes

Quoting "Charles R. Anderson" <cra(a)WPI.EDU>: > If a client is not participating in the domain, then the client will > login to the local system using its local account database. If the > client wishes to later connect to the samba server, they will need to > authenticate to the server. The user can type their domain > credentials when mapping the network drive. If the user's local > account credentials are the same as the domain credentials for that > user, then the user will not have to authenticate manually. The > client system will use the cached credentials from when the user > logged in locally. > Excellent, that's exactly what I want. > vsftpd. Very secure and fast. Little to no maintenance. Snifty. Thanks for the fast reply. -Marc

May 13, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Ftp & Samba questions

by Dwight A. Ernest

Marc Hughes wrote: > What FTP server do you suggest for internal use that's low-load (5 max clients > at a time) and low-maintenance? The only real choice these days for an FTP server, regardless of how often it's used, is vsftpd. http://vsftpd.beasts.org/ -- Dwight A. Ernest, dwight at significant dot com GPG key A6999567 Cell: +1-508-523-1416 FAX: +1-978-405-2504 YIM: dwight_ernest RHCE #803004293310030 http://significant.com/~dwight/ KA2CNN Papa, partner, pilot, net geek, sysadmin, consultant, cohouser.

May 13, 2004

Re: [Wlug] Ftp & Samba questions

by Charles R. Anderson

On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:27:13AM -0400, Marc Hughes wrote: > If I set up samba to be a domain controller. Can clients not participating in > the domain still log in? If a client is not participating in the domain, then the client will login to the local system using its local account database. If the client wishes to later connect to the samba server, they will need to authenticate to the server. The user can type their domain credentials when mapping the network drive. If the user's local account credentials are the same as the domain credentials for that user, then the user will not have to authenticate manually. The client system will use the cached credentials from when the user logged in locally. > What FTP server do you suggest for internal use that's low-load (5 max clients > at a time) and low-maintenance? vsftpd. Very secure and fast. Little to no maintenance.

May 13, 2004