[ale] Networking Linuxboxes

[James Sumners]

I think we are expecting him to take the information we are giving him
and do further research. I know I have not once mentioned any specific
tool, only specific programs. And I have focused on SAMBA. He has
stated that he uses OpenSUSE. So I know that he has YaST at his
disposal, and am assuming he is using that for configuring SAMBA.
Since I don't use OpenSUSE (at least not in a couple years), I can't
tell him "click this, then click that." But I can tell him "you want
to use such-and-such. You want it to do this." Surely he can go from
there?

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:39 PM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> I think what Marc is expecting is that, like Windows, multiple
> Linux machines on the same physical network will automagically
> see each other's shared resources, and provide some reasonably
> obvious means of indicating that a resource should be shared.
> But we are talking about command-line tools that we are not
> entitled to assume he's familiar with (although in fact he may
> be).  This is, IMO, one form of passive hostility to newbies:
> when we assume they know something we know (and most especially
> when we "assume" that, while secretly suspecting in our heart
> of hearts that they *don't*), it makes it hard for them even
> to ask intelligent questions, or to get answers that make sense.


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James Sumners
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