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Samba Turns 10

Posted by michael on from the time-for-the-birthday-spanking dept.

abartlet writes: "Samba is celebrating its 10th birthday - initally released as Andrew Tridgell's humble 'Server 0.5' 10 long years ago. Tridge has made some notes on the past 10 years. And Samba is still going strong, becoming a cornerstone of the Linux community. Samba 3.0 is on its way and promises many new features, including for the first time support as a server in an Active Directory domain! But the biggest thanks goes to all those who have contributed code, bugs, testing, docs and feedback in general. We could not have come the last 10 years without you! -- Andrew Bartlett, Samba Team."

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  1. Don't forget mars_nwe - the NetWare emu by rewtbeer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Samba is a great piece of softare, don't get me wrong... but you're still emulating that suck ass non-routable smb protocol. Why not use something worth your time? I'm sure some of you will say NetWare is dead, or NetWare sucks, but by saying that you are admitting you know nothing about NetWare and Novell's current product line.

    Give it a shot. You'll learn something, and find out it's a much better product than SMB and any M$ attempt at an NOS.

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  2. Samba validates Microsoft by CDWert · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No bashing here , but Samba validates Microsoft.

    Samba is awesome stuff a little harry for a late night conversion on a 300 gig W2K server at times but good stuff.

    Samba makes MS look that much better and more important, funny about every couple months you hear about MS planning to do something on their end to undo the work of Samba team, seems to me like a good bed fellow for Microsoft.

    Good Bad Ugly or None of the above , none of it matters when talking MS, fact is its here for the long haul, we have to connect to it, Ostritch networking dosent work in the real work (i.e. Its ms were just no going to connect and well stick our heads in the sand and act like it dosent exist) MS has been the bearer or butcher, whatever you think of many standards, Samba VALIDATES a few of those MS altered standards.

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  3. To all WinBloze(r) lusers by BattyMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Welcome to SlashDot.

    Fsck windows!

    Now go away.

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