On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:05:46 -0400, jim wrote:

> "Mark Madsen" <mark.s.madsen+news******.com> wrote in message
> news:4850d2c1$1_1@news.bluewin.ch...
>> On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:34:23 -0400, jim wrote:
>>
>>> I offered to help where I could (sacrificing a goat, providing beer or
>>> money) but was told that the only help needed was to fix the code.
>>> Unfortunately for me, I don't know C coding - so I am SOL.
>>
>> If you really want to get it fixed and working,
>>
>> http://www.rentacoder.com/
>>
>> will enable you to put your money where your mouth is.
>
> That's what I've been saying all along.

Make sure to let us know what the fix was, how long it took, and what it
cost.

Posting a link here to your bid may also attract those who would be
interested in working on the fix for you.

> Linux is not ready out of the box to play well on a Microsoft network
> without installing something like Samba and gathering info that Windows
> users would normally never need to know.

The strangest part of your logic is that you seem to think it is a
shortcoming in Linux that Microsoft products don't work very well with
anything else.

Those of us who don't bother with that MS stuff don't feel any of your
pain. In fact, from this perspective it looks perversely masochistic.