[indiana-discuss] samba/cifs server?

[Calum Benson]

On 17 May 2008, at 18:35, Rob wrote:
>
> In ubuntu's gnome, when you double-click the clock and check the box  
> that says "sync computer time with internet servers" it warns you  
> that NTP isn't installed, and offers to install it for you. The  
> ubuntu developers understood that this is a common task, and they  
> also chose not to install ntp by default. Instead of throwing an  
> error at the user "error! ntpd not found" they help the user install  
> the necessary package.

IIRC this is thanks to PackageKit[1]... I don't know how easy/sensible  
it would be to port that to OpenSolaris, but no reason somebody  
couldn't look at it.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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