so, I've been running a little file/print server in my basement on Ubuntu Linux for about a year or so now. It's been quite stable and virus free, though recently it started becoming flaky and non functional for some of the basic purposes I wanted from it. Part of it was hardware getting old and failing... Anyways, I decided to upgrade my storage and rebuild the thing last week and I installed the latest release of Ubuntu, 100% pain free. It found all the drivers, and didn't bother me, like a windows install does, periodically to click next.
Then I try to get the file shares going, no problem... next, print sharing. Trouble. It wasn't as easy as I remember and I start mucking around with settings and editing config files... typical old school linux crap. Not only could I not print, but my file shares stopped too... Running out of usable time, I did what I thought I would never do... I went back to good ol' windows.
More painul install, trying to find current drivers, doing 4 or 5 batches of updates etc... I can now print and access my files with reasonable ease. I think the main difference was that I switched from win 2000 server which was quite clunky and beligerent sometimes. Now I've gone to XP pro, not exactly server class, but a little smoother. Maybe Bill Gates likes mullets.
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