[LON-CAPA-admin] samba install problem

[Scott Harrison]

Hi Lars:

Samba is a reasonable solution.

However,
the LON-CAPA software itself no longer directly enables Samba connectivity.

Rather,
we expect system administrators (human beings) to personally supervise
the configuration of Samba on their LON-CAPA machine.

This is all because
we cannot hope to have a 100% perfect auto-samba-ifying solution
amongst different RedHat distributions, samba releases,
system administrator philosophies, and institutional networks and firewalls.

As a general rule, if things are not 100% reliable in the installation,
auto-configuring, and upgrading, the costs outweigh the benefits.

By all means, configuring your machine to support Samba is a good idea.

Regards,
Scott

> > Note that:
> > 1) LON-CAPA support for samba is no longer officially available.
> 
> Is this because there is going to be a better or as good a way for
> faculty to create resources in later versions?
> 
> Is it not recommended to use samba?