
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:49:29PM +0000, Ivan N. Zlatev wrote:
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net> wrote:
Just example what new users hit when they try Linux: http://blogs.computerworld.com/a_newbie_turns_to_linux
Samba is notorious problem. It is not installed, user is not warned that it should be installed.
Yes this is indeed ridiculous. Samba / Windows Shares browsing doesn't *NOT* work out of the box on openSUSE. The reason is that it's blocked in the Firewall by default. So if I were an end user:
1) I have to know what YaST is 2) I have to know what a Firewall is. 3) I have to know what "Broadcast" in the Firewall is. 4) I have to know that "SAMBA" means "Shares" 5) So I can *manually* open Yast, open the Firewall, go to Broadcast Section, click Add, locate "Samba Browsing" wonder like mad what the hell those "Zone" things are not that they matter, save. 6) Oh and best of all. I have to know that in Nautilus I have to switch to manual location input 7) And I have to know that I have to type smb:// in order to see the shares list
FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL.
I keep thinking there are 1) too little developers working on openSUSE 2) too little users 3) too many things that are broken out of the box on openSUSE (e.g 11.1 disk burning was broken., the release before the package manager was broken)
Keep in mind that you might have those trillion lines of code and this super complex distribution which contains hundreds of packages but the user doesn't care. If the basic use cases don't work out of the box then it's broken and that's it.
Set the firewall to "Internal" if you are working internally, like when you have SMB shares. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org