Well, that was sort of disappointing. I have grumbled, growled, complained about and harboured passionate hatred for Samba since the Mandrake days, and I fully expected to have to fight with it every step of the way when I decided to configure it this morning so that my desktop, laptop and P’s desktop can all share files. No fight–I installed it, stopped the daemon, edited smb.conf to our network name, added shares, added users and restarted the daemon. Same thing on the laptop/ I’m now listening to my music on crappy laptop speakers instead of my good speakers and soundcard….because I can. I still haven’t tested P’s access, but since Samba is built for Win/Linux sharing, and I’ve never had any problems with his before, I suspect it’ll be just fine once I allow access through his firewall. Kind of a letdown, though, when Geek Girl doesn’t get to tinker. On the bright side, for some reason, I can’t get Audacious to play mp3 on the laptop. Totem will, but Audacious complains, and that’s okay because it means I get to fix something. Bonus points because I didn’t break it in the first place. 😆