Gentoo has been messing with samba packages (again). I guess we are supposed to use just samba now, no more samba-server, samba-client, mount-cifs, blah blah blah. OK, fine. I switched over one machine and everything fell apart. Why? Apparently when you remove mount-cifs (which properly blocks the samba upgrade), YOUR SAMBA USERS GET WIPED OUT. Fun stuff. Best part is, if you browse to your samba shares your machine will totally hang! Seriously! How often do you get to see that in linux? Readd them and you’ll be good to go… hope you don’t have a lot of them!
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smbpasswd -a yourusernameI’m starting to see a fork in the road of my life: accept this level of noise (a given in any open source environment) and deal with it (mostly like through use of several machines, one poor bastard that is updated regularly, and others that get updated when things look good); or give up and switch to a different environment (what though? nothing better exists..)…
