Re: samba hell

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Marty Landman wrote:
> At 06:11 PM 1/29/2004, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> > Sure.  I actually have a system here that a client hosed.  They wrote 
> > their website on windows (where filenames aren't case sensitive) and 
> > actually run the site using Apache on Linux (where filenames ARE case 
> > sensitive), so the site didn't work.
>
>
> I'm sort of going through all this so I can keep editing my source in 
> Textpad on windows and skip that extra step of using an ftp client to 
> port the changes over to the unix server. It's all on the lan but still 
> I think editing samba shares directly will be much easier. This 
> shouldn't give me any conflicts either afaik, then again haven't started 
> doing it this way yet.

Aw, it should be fine.  If you're vi-shy and want something that's
notepadish, why not try "gedit" (under Gnome) or "kedit" (under KDE).
Both are simple (don't use the what-some-may-call-arcane command
syntax of vi/vim), fast, and fully GUI.  Try 'em, you'll like 'em!

> Before even installing fbsd and linux I first installed Apache and Mysql 
> on my XP workstation and actually got a development environment working 
> properly. But it was for a Unix hosted website and the differences made 
> me do so many little kludgey accommodations to hold it all together that 
> I ended up going the route of installing unix.

Ah, but you'll be a better person for using Linux.  Trust me!  ;-)

> Likely more than you wanted to know Rick.

Heheheheh!
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