drauk, I'm glad Keef is no troll.
But I'm still terminally puzzled by as to why he should be tinkering with /udev/rules.d to get Samba working. Not being an Linux uber-guru I was only vaguely aware of the udev folder since I've never had occasion to poke around in it. From my reading, not many people do.
udev is the device manager for the 2.6 kernel series - see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev for the most succinct overview. Udev uses information exported by the kernel drivers to the sysfs filesystem (usually mounted on /sys) to identify specific devices and to then associate them with specific names in /dev.
I'm at a loss to find any connection with Samba at all
Daniel Drake's "Writing udev rules" at
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_u...xample-printer discusses udev rules at length. Nothing that I can connect to Samba (which I know enough to be reasonably comfortable with).
Here's a not untypical /udev/rules.d/local.rules
# Optical Devices
# Added by Shilo 09/12/2004
#BUS="ide", KERNEL="hdc", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="dvd dvdrw cdroms/dvdrw cdroms/cdrom0", MODE="0660", GROUP="cdrom"
#BUS="ide", KERNEL="hdd", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom dvdrom cdroms/dvdrom cdroms/cdrom1", MODE="0660", GROUP="cdrom"
KERNEL="hdc", SYMLINK="dvd dvdrw cdroms/dvdrw cdroms/cdrom0"
KERNEL="hdd", SYMLINK="cdrom dvdrom cdroms/dvdrom cdroms/cdrom1"
# Windows formatted iPod mini support
BUS="scsi", SYSFS{model}="iPod ", KERNEL="sd?2", NAME="ipod", SYMLINK="%k", MODE="0777", GROUP="ipod"
I'm sure that Keef does have difficulties with Linux (we all do at times, just as with Windows), but the problems that he has enumerated (and been unable to solve, even after months of intensive effort) don't seem to be typical of normal user problems and often seem to involve configuration files buried deep in the tree that have no obvious connection to the issues he encounters.
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