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pipitas k1pfeifle at gmx.net
Sun Jan 9 17:00:15 PST 2005


Anonymous wrote:

> Sorry. You are using a very ancient release of Samba. The only thing
> to do here is paraphrase something "pipitas" recently wrote here (and
> adapt it to your case of Samba:
> 
> # Please read this document first:
> #
> #    http://us4.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.10.html
> #
> # to decide wether you really want to stay on a Samba version that has
> # seen 10 bugfix releases since 3.0.2a.
> #
> # If you dont have the time to read this link (I could fully understand
> # that :->  ), please try to count all occurences of "print", "driver",
> # "lp" or "spool" enumerated there.
> #
> # If you're guess is similar to mine, you'd say "more than 110", roughly
> # 90% of these since 3.0.2 was releaed. Ask yourself if you want to go on
> # and live/work without 100+ bug-fixes provided, features added,
> # enhancements developed, security-issues resolved by continuing to use
> # 3.0.2?
> #
> # If you say, "I'll rather stay with 3.0.2" you are throwing away the last
> # 12 months of wonderfull work the Samba developers have provided for you
> # for
> # free  ;-)
> #
> # Honestly, I dont think that there is anybody on this list/newsgroup, nor
> # the Samba one, who could be motivated to put time and energy into
> # investigating an obscure bug that happens on your old system, when they
> # all have newer ones themselves.

Hehe....

I even tend to agree with this paraphrasing and modification of my
words. I'd just do a "s#you're#your#" at the place where messed this
up.

Cheers,
Kurt




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