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Old 23rd May 2009
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Originally Posted by Bruco View Post
What I mean is, when I configured samba on my FreeBSD box I edited smb.conf by hand.
Samba has a web interface which is independent of OS. You could just click
your way out of Samba configuration on FreeBSD box as well if that was the goal. You would obviously trade security for convenience but that seems to be the goal. The price of auto-configuration on Debian is very HIGH besides security. You install same small peace of desktop related software just to find out that Apache and eleven other services are happily running compromising your system and eating resources. Well that kind a "user friendliness" is exact reason why proprietary systems like Windows are can of worms. If Windows had all services shut by default and required users to start up necessary services it would not be actually that bad OS at all.

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