Comment 14 for bug 462169

For what it's worth:

I have installed 9.10 more than 15 times. Most of the times I lost "sharing" and could not be seen
on the network. I could restart Samba and the network would be ok; until the next boot. I could not get "Open as administrator" to work", nor any of the context menu extra "stuff". I would loose the ability for other computers on the network access files (web pages) on the 9.10 computer. The network has Linux and Windows computers. For three times, I installed 9.04 and installed all my programs, got every thing working great. I then upgraded over network from 9.04 to 9.10 with no problems at all. I find 9.10 loaded from "scratch" produces an almost unusable system for network use, but produces an excellent system by the upgrade route.