On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:02:22AM -0400, HoytDuff wrote: > On Tuesday 01 October 2002 10:20 pm, Charles Griffin scribbled in crayon on a > yellow legal pad: > > jeez... turns out swat wasn't turned on as a service. > > silly me. > > > > thanks for your suggestions. > > that shoudl be a bug since there is a menu item for Samba configuration. If > it's installed, it should be running, shouldn't it?
No!!!!! Please no, no no..... You should be able to install software without it running as default. Otherwise you will have all machines exposed to the inevitable future bug. My thoughts are that no matter what you install you should at least be required to learn enough to turn it on before listening on the network. Chuck