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Andrew Tridgell Talks About The Future Of Samba

Posted by timothy on from the up-and-coming-musical-style dept.

Spud writes "Andrew Tridgell tells us what Samba is up to in a new interview." Specifically, he talks about several new features planned for Samba 4.0, and says that the release of 3.0 will happen "soon."

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  1. Replacing NFS by kinema · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Andrew obviously know his stuff when it comes to networked filesystems. In previous interviews he has let his disgust with CIFS/SMB be known. I wonder if he has any plans to design and write a new FS to compete with the defacto standard NFS.

  2. Samba + NT DC Integration by bolix · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've just completed a Samba3 Winbindd setup to synchronise some pop3 users+pws with an NT PDC. I have to admit it was a non-trivial task and i found myself scurrying to the 3.0 Head docs frequently.

    I had been hoping to implement a samba BDC to an NT pdc but i was not successful in my efforts. It is trivial to configure a Samba filer but DC Replication is a still a work in progress. I will wait for the efforts to mature and contemplate the move to a Samba PDC.

    I cannot but extend massive kudos to the Samba team et all for getting this far without access to the source code.