Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:55:16 +0500 From: "Haikal Saadh" <wyldephyre2@yahoo.com> To: "'Denny Jodeit'" <denny@jodeit.com>, <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Book Suggestions for a newbie Message-ID: <000001c1acc2$d106ef10$4ec801ca@warhawk> In-Reply-To: <007c01c1ac1a$1ae50b70$6f830acf@gdennyj>
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*snip* > > It's a great second book (after Ms. Anderson's excellent > book). Ms. > > Anderson's doesn't go that deeply into Apache or Samba > (both of which, > > in my experience work fairly well out of the box) but is a great > > reference Wrt samba and apache, I've had mixed results, and I think I'll just mention how my initial experiences were just for the record. Apache didn't give me too much trouble for simple stuff, but for more complicated stuff like cgi's and what not, do be prepared to read the manual 4 or 5 times, check permissions, reconfigure and rinse repeat as necessary. (tip: Do make a backup config copy of the config file) As for samba, in my experience, most misery is caused by win9x clients. I've not had any serious issues with NT clients, and the samba docco is really extensive and included step by step trouble shooting instructions should shit happen... :) Do be prepared to burn retina while reading said extensive docco. (which lives in /usr/local/share/doc/samba, IIRC) Go forth and conquer... *snip* _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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