[Bug 251469] [NEW] samba nightmare

2008-07-24 Thread codeslinger
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: samba Ubuntu 8.0.4 Hardy Heron Desktop I have spent *DAYS* trying to get this to work!!! now my ubuntu system is so badly hosed it looks like I will have to restore from backup. all I did was uninstall samba and cups and then attempt to reinstall them.

[Bug 251469] Re: samba nightmare

2008-07-24 Thread codeslinger
** Attachment added: "currently installed synaptic packages -- broken system" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16279541/synaptic_pkgs_final_total_disaster.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16279542/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "DpkgTerminalLog.

[Bug 251469] Re: samba nightmare

2008-07-24 Thread codeslinger
attached is the synaptic package list after installing the additional packages that broke the printer config system. ** Attachment added: "synaptic package - broken printing" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16279605/printer-krap-very-broken.txt -- samba nightmare https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 251469] Re: samba nightmare

2008-07-24 Thread codeslinger
for comparison, attached is my synaptic config when everything still basically worked, this was after a successful install (by hand) of vmware. of course at this point, file and printer sharing is *NOT* working... and I have not yet attempted to install samba in order to get it to work. ** At

[Bug 251469] Re: samba nightmare

2008-07-24 Thread codeslinger
by the way, I am a computer consultant / sysadmin for several different companies. I would like nothing better than to convert those companies to using ubuntu and to avoid Vista altogether. My samba nightmare is that in one of those companies, their main computer died and I foolishly decided to r

[Bug 251469] Re: samba nightmare

2008-07-26 Thread codeslinger
short answer: Because after installing some packages, my system was malfunctioning with substantial breakage of the printing system, I used the synaptic package manager to uninstall both Samba and CUPS, then I manually deleted/moved the /etc/samba folder to ensure that the configs would be rec

[Bug 252843] Re: hardy php5 max execution time

2008-08-10 Thread codeslinger
I could not reproduce this problem. I also checked http://bugs.php.net/ and could not find any indications of a problem with max_execution_time. I used the following program: #!/usr/bin/php it ran until I stopped it. === Things to be aware of. There are two different php.ini files.

[Bug 252843] Re: hardy php5 max execution time

2008-08-10 Thread codeslinger
if you want to pursue this bug further -- first try the set_time_limit(0) solution -- and then please give specific repro steps, it is not clear enough from your description what you are doing. also try phpinfo(); and find out exactly which php.ini file is being used and look for the possibility

[Bug 93603] Re: RFE: Add more php5 extensions (like php5-gmp)

2008-08-11 Thread codeslinger
FYI: Most of the php PECL packages (including readline) have already been added. The following packages do have separate bugs opened for them but they have not yet been added/updated. These are the requests that I found after an extensive search, some of them have been inactive for a long time.

[Bug 251469] Re: samba nightmare

2008-11-20 Thread codeslinger
I am disappointed by the lack of response to this bug. But I am happy to report that after several months of automatic updates, I happened to notice that samba had finally and mysteriously started to work... with no changes on my part. So somebody somewhere fixed something. And for that I am gr