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Samba XP 2003 Announced

Posted by timothy on from the dance-the-night-away dept.

Marcelo R. Minholi writes "On April 14th and 15th 2003 developers and users will meet again in Göttingen, Germany at the second international SAMBA conference, the 'samba eXPerience 2003.' More information can be found in Samba Website and Samba XP Website."

14 comments

  1. Nice by mnmn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Samba and Wine are two of the most important projects that will push Linux onto desktops and betterment of the world. Its not just a networking thingy like some people think. Having a CIFS server BETTER than windows 2000/xp is the first step into world domination.

    Cheers Samba team.

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    1. Re:Nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Give it another ten years and linux will nearly be ready to take over the desktop.

    2. Re:Nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I give it a year or so. Seriously.

    3. Re:Nice by cyb97 · · Score: 3, Interesting
      Not too mention that samba due to it's light-weight both client and server provides a good alternative to nfs in unstable environments...

      A dead nfs-server can almost kill it's clients, especially under linux... While the whimsy nature of smb has made most OSes (apart from windows) pretty ignorant to how it behaves, happy when it's working and ignorant the rest of the time...

      Ignorance is bliss!

  2. Yes, but by hackwrench · · Score: 3, Interesting

    is there a free file server protocol that runs on Win 98 and XP that doesn't mangle filenames. Samba doesnt appear to have a package that actually runs on Windows.

    1. Re:Yes, but by Vlad_the_Inhaler · · Score: 4, Informative

      Samba runs on a large number of Unix variations and tries to emulate M$ networking. Since M$ networking is available natively on Win98 and XP (+ the others), why should anyone want to write a free third-party package for Windows?
      Maybe there is something significant here when you talk about 'mangling filenames', but the M$ implementation is by definition the reference implementation and the one that Samba has to be able to handle. Or have I missed something fundamental here?

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    2. Re:Yes, but by Vengie · · Score: 2

      Because while they "emulate" microsoft networking, they do it /better/ than microsoft.
      1) network neighborhood doesnt scale
      2) diff os systems (ME, 2k, 98se, etc) have diff options for sharing (simple vs user based?) etc.

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  3. Yeah, late 2003 - early 2004 will be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...about when we'll see significant numbers of corporate Linux desktops begin being deployed. Maybe even encroach upon Apple's slice of the piechart.

    1. Re:Yeah, late 2003 - early 2004 will be... by mnmn · · Score: 2

      Thats exactly where we'll bite first, the little apple, then move onto bigger game. I dont think seclusion will help apple against Linux, theyve already taken up UNIX to prepare for the war, might end up being a hardware company. I'd give that 2008

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  4. Is this an ad or a news item? by synq · · Score: 1

    Sounds interesting, 'Samba Experience'. Maybe I should even go there. But else there is not much news in this posting. There is an announcement and a call for papers. So, did anyone submit an abstract yet?

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  5. Samba XP huh.... by mlg9000 · · Score: 1

    So does this mean Samba will actually support XP/2000 now or they just being teases? Yeah... it works great as a file server with XP/2000 clients. I want a replacement for a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain controller. I know Samba 3 is supposed to support this when it finally comes out.

    1. Re:Samba XP huh.... by Havokmon · · Score: 2
      Yeah... it works great as a file server with XP/2000 clients. I want a replacement for a Windows 2000 Active Directory domain controller.

      Netware 6. Comes with licenses so you can build a fileserver with failover. 2 years ago I built one, streamed a video file from the fileserver, downed the 1st, and the stream paused for a second before the 2nd server picked up the stream.

      Plus you get NDS.. Beats AD any day.

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