After asking many questions on aols I would like to share a success
story for Slackware with you.

My IT manager needed a Unix box set up to perform some tasks that he
required. It had to be able to interface to windoze by allowing a GUI to
be run up under Reflections X, serving out the home directories under
samba so that they could be mapped as windoze drives and redirecting
user mail messages so that they appeared in their windoze mailboxes.

I needed an opportubity to broaden my Linux skills, on Company Time, to
be able to provide a realistic Linux IT service when the need arises
(which probably won't be that far in the future).

It was agreed that I could set up a Linux box to perform the IT
Manager's tasks and two distros immediately came to mind being Mandrake
9.1 and Slackware 9.1.

Mandrake 9.1 was installed first. Our parent compay is French and I
intended to make an impression by using a French Distro.Samba was
brought up and running but the only GUI that would begin to work with
Reflections X was xdm (Yugh!) and Icewm (Double yugh!). This did not
look good especially as I wanted to give the users KDE as their desktop
and no amount of tweaking and howtos seemed to be able to fix things.

After a week I decided to reinstall and try Slackware 9.1 and did a full
blown installation. Samba worked a treat with the configuration file
originally used on Mandrake. A minor tweak to the gdm.conf file brought
GDM up with Reflections X and gave users their KDE desktop and a full
set of tools. User's email was successfully redirected to their windoze
mailboxes. Also all the the IT Manager's Unix shell scripts worked
immediately and he was happy to tell me so.

The next step will be to set up cups/samba to allow the users to print
to the windoze printer.

In this case, although Slackware may not yet have won the war and been
accepted as my company standard it certainly has won the first battle.

Felt you should know.
--
Regards
Martin Hughes
Linux User #283064
Blessed are those who expect nothing; for they shall not be disappointed.

Martin Hughes schrieb:

> In this case, although Slackware may not yet have won the war and been
> accepted as my company standard it certainly has won the first battle.
>
> Felt you should know.

Congratulations to your success. But remember: It's all about computers
and operating systems and not about war and fighting battles.

Just my 2c...


--
Cheerz Lars

Lars Behrens wrote:
>But remember: It's all about computers
> and operating systems and not about war and fighting battles.
>
> Just my 2c...
>
Thanks for your comment. I should definitely have used a better turn of
phrase in these turbulent times.

I ahould have said "in this case, although Slackware may not yet have
been accepted as my company standard it certainly has achieved the first
goal.
>

--
Regards
Martin Hughes
Linux User #283064
You never know where the next banana skin may be lying.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:34:52 +0200, Lars Behrens wrote:


>
> Congratulations to your success. But remember: It's all about computers
> and operating systems and not about war and fighting battles.
>
> Just my 2c...

Blow it out your whiny ass.

Just my 3c

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 01:52:07 +0000, Grimper wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:34:52 +0200, Lars Behrens wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Congratulations to your success. But remember: It's all about computers
>> and operating systems and not about war and fighting battles.
>>
>> Just my 2c...
>
> Blow it out your whiny ass.
>
> Just my 3c

Well, kiss your what??

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:41:20 +0100, Martin Hughes wrote:

> Lars Behrens wrote:
>>But remember: It's all about computers
>> and operating systems and not about war and fighting battles.
>>
>> Just my 2c...
>>
> Thanks for your comment. I should definitely have used a better turn of
> phrase in these turbulent times.
>
> I ahould have said "in this case, although Slackware may not yet have
> been accepted as my company standard it certainly has achieved the first
> goal.
>>

Just a matter of semantics. IMHO lots of people worry too much about
'political correctness'.

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 09:33:18 -0600, ray wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 15:41:20 +0100, Martin Hughes wrote:
>
>> Lars Behrens wrote:
>>>But remember: It's all about computers
>>> and operating systems and not about war and fighting battles.
>>>
>>> Just my 2c...
>>>
>> Thanks for your comment. I should definitely have used a better turn of
>> phrase in these turbulent times.
>>
>> I ahould have said "in this case, although Slackware may not yet have
>> been accepted as my company standard it certainly has achieved the first
>> goal.
>>>
>
> Just a matter of semantics. IMHO lots of people worry too much about
> 'political correctness'.

I might add that this change of distro fixed this? gawd. I probably
shouldn't try to be this sarcastic, I think its a disease... and again
gawd!