Yep!... Still a Newbie

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

David L wrote:

>I set up a pc at home as a file server and printer server ( to print from both 
>FreeBSD/ Linux clients as well as windows clients ), and thanks to a lot of 
>posts, and a lot of google, I got it working very reliably. So I thought Ide 
>replicate this on the FreeBSD server I set up at work, should'nt be to hard 
>Ill just copy my configuration from my server. So I logged in to my home 
>server from work ( using putty on windows ) and coppied the smb.conf printing 
>configurations over. Unfortunately I cant copy and paste between putty and 
>anything else like I can with terminals on KDE at home, so I had to retype it 
>in, and I did so blindly, paying little attention to what I was typing. And 
>it didnt work , and I couldnt figure out what it was for roughly 2 months of 
>the occasional attempts. 
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>
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>And it came back when I sent another job to print, and got bigger with every 
>editional job. And then I figured out what I did wrong. 
>Why must 2 charachters be so similar?
>
>
>David L
>  
>
Heh, I hear ya.  I've often wondered if the famous
Windows 95/98/ME BSOD isn't caused by something
similar in many cases.

Gotta love debugging...and, aren't we all just
newbies in varying stages of development?

Kevin Kinsey