From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 06:46:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32CB16A4B3 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 06:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0477B43FCB for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 06:46:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.179]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Sat, 4 Oct 2003 08:48:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3F7ECF0C.7070502@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 08:45:48 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David L References: <200310041632.42725.dlodeiro@inspired.net.au> In-Reply-To: <200310041632.42725.dlodeiro@inspired.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Oct 2003 13:48:58.0078 (UTC) FILETIME=[4262A7E0:01C38A7E] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yep!... Still a Newbie X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 13:46:31 -0000 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. > > >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 Kinsey