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Samba 3.0.0RC1 Released
dook43 writes "Samba 3.0.0 RC1 has been released as of 8/16. Probably the most important new feature is its Active Directory support, but the rest of the new features can be found at the website."
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Just when I perfected the old samba, they release a new version. Now I have to learn all those dance steps again.
Shit.
always the first to get the nice stuff. I can't wait till the Windows port comes out ...
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Having the Active Directory support is really a bug feature
Now, was this a Freudian slip or what...
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My brain doesn't have the neural paths to understand some unix documentation, including samba, many man pages, etc. They seem to be produced from the old IBM school that says that the documentation should be for people that already is expert on the topic.
Yes. The term for these people is "Professionals". That's why we make money doing it.
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Man, couldn't he find a better place to live?
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Gee and this is from and AC with no proof or benchmarks. Well that settles it, Samba RC3 is officially "broken and horribly slow."
:rolleyes:
Glad this was modded up to +5 Informative so we all know to never use Samba 3.x.
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How dare you discriminate against those poor people that can earn obscene amounts of money by learning how to pass MCSE exams without the slightest bit of computer expertise?
You, sir, are a cad, and a Unix elitist bastard. Anyone knows that true enterprise solutions only require a few mouse clicks to configure, and that manuals are for those who have overstayed their contracts.
Have to say I agree with you 100% though ; /.
oh brave new world, that has such people in it!
Professionals would never deploy large numbers of Windows boxes!
Unless that's the oldest profession you're on about...
Has samba ever been such a good implementation of M$ that it's fallen victim to viruses that are targeted at one of the M$ variants?
And just what will the offspring of this Windows/Unix replication be like? Will its NT kernel be able to handle Unix-style system calls? Or will the offspring be a penguin with Bill Gates' face?
No matter how I look at this, I just cannot see that this "replication" can be a good thing. You're going to create an abomination that will bring only misery to the world. Keep your computers on opposite sides of the room, with very short power cables, or you will doom us all.
/me goes off to look up "replication."
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
But jesus...do your clients know that you're equipping them with dodgy, third-rate hobbyist software that may not even have a legally licensed implementation of the SMB protocol. I'd hope your competitors bring this to light, because in the end signing on to use Samba is probably just as risky as using Linux what with the SCO situation.
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dodgy, third-rate hobbyist software
He said they were ALREADY using Windows, right?
Just replace C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\KERNEL32.DLL with /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0 and you're all set.
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Linux is going to start the march on the server end. Only after you build confidence using Linux for things like internal DNS and DHCP will management let you roll it out to things like file serving and domain control. After it's clear that Linux is reliable and secure you can push for Linux on the desktop within a small test group.
Right now (here on the east coast, at least) most managers and IT people will laugh you out of the room if you mention Linux seriously. Hell, most places I won' even mention that I 'do' Linux because people automatically think you're a neer-do-well or a commie, not to mention that those in IT who DO know are scared SHITLESS that their days are numbered.
A huge portion of the IT department where I work (a big bank) don't know ANYTHING about linux other than what they've read in 'Information Week'. I had a server admin ask me last week if she can 'run version 8 of Linux on Windows XP', this lady earns three times what I do as a server admin and all she knows is how to 'end task' and reboot, there's no chance an army of that kind of person is going to want to accept a new player on the network, she'd smell her job evaporating.
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