On Wednesday 02 October 2002 01:56 am, C Moss scribbled in crayon on a yellow 
legal pad:

> >
> > 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,

Then one should be told to do so. I not, it should be enabled by default. Not 
enabling it and not telling the user that it is not enabled is a poor 
practice; handled in that manner, it _is_ a bug.

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Hoyt
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