[Novalug] Who needs Windows Home Server with Linux around?

[James Ewing Cottrell 3rd]

Well, if you like the idea of a GUI, then chase it. These days, the 
Universal GUI Client is the Browser. Learn how to code CGI scripts in 
shell or perl. Even better, write a shell script and place it on the 
desktop. Double clicking it will run it as a shell script. If you need 
user input you can find a simple X utility that prompts for a message 
and returns it to the script.

Remember, UNXI/Linux command lines are more logical than the old 
Mainframe stuff, especially IBM JCL.

JIM

dwdurham at verizon.net wrote:
> Thanks. This could help. My Linux Guru abandoned me after he realized I was not taking to the command line (as he thought everyone should). 
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> Dennis
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> (I started as a mainframe programmer in the dark ages of punched card. Once I saw GUI I went for it. Going back to command line seems to me like going back to assembler coding. I suppose I could do it, but why not just go the rest of the way back to the quill pen?)
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> From: "Don Groves, Jr." <dgrovesjr at gmail.com>
> Date: 2008/04/13 Sun PM 01:38:10 CDT
> To: Igor Birman <igor_birman at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Northern Virginia Linux User's Group <novalug at calypso.tux.org>
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] Who needs Windows Home Server with Linux around?
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> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Igor Birman <igor_birman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there a GUI way to configure Samba user accounts?
> Well there is "swat": (an article about swat)
>  <http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-1035_11-1035709.html>
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> And it will take care of most of the other pieces(problems you mentioned) in a GUI way.
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