Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 08:45:48 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: David L <dlodeiro@inspired.net.au> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yep!... Still a Newbie Message-ID: <3F7ECF0C.7070502@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <200310041632.42725.dlodeiro@inspired.net.au>
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David L wrote: >I set up a pc at home as a file server and printer server ( to print from both >FreeBSD/ Linux clients as well as windows clients ), and thanks to a lot of >posts, and a lot of google, I got it working very reliably. So I thought Ide >replicate this on the FreeBSD server I set up at work, should'nt be to hard >Ill just copy my configuration from my server. So I logged in to my home >server from work ( using putty on windows ) and coppied the smb.conf printing >configurations over. Unfortunately I cant copy and paste between putty and >anything else like I can with terminals on KDE at home, so I had to retype it >in, and I did so blindly, paying little attention to what I was typing. And >it didnt work , and I couldnt figure out what it was for roughly 2 months of >the occasional attempts. > > <snip> >And it came back when I sent another job to print, and got bigger with every >editional job. And then I figured out what I did wrong. >Why must 2 charachters be so similar? > > >David L > > Heh, I hear ya. I've often wondered if the famous Windows 95/98/ME BSOD isn't caused by something similar in many cases. Gotta love debugging...and, aren't we all just newbies in varying stages of development? Kevin Kinseyhome | help
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