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Samba 4 Reaches "Susan" Stage

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-love-that-description dept.

superfebs writes "Some day ago Samba4 reached a pretty serious test stage. Promises are beautiful: full SMB protocol implementation, Active Directory Domain Controller facility, and more; here's a full roadmap."

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  1. Andrew Tridgell - a free software hero by mralert · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Andrew Tridgell is the man behind two of the most interesting and usable free software products available; samba and rsync. Samba is truly great, but I find rsync so incredibly useful and smart. Does the Windows world have any kind of rsync-equivalent? (Besides the Windows rsync-ports, which require a lot of extra stuff like Cygwin.) Backing up data with rsync makes me sleep well at night :-) Thanks Tridgell! :-)

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  2. Implementing Microsoft "Standards" by spencerogden · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is truly amazing about the Samba project is their consistent ability to emulate MS screw up, go "buf for bug" is the term I think is used. To implement something like Active Directory, bugs and, which included 4 or 5 different standard (but not quite) services is amazing. Just look at the problems with write support for NTFS. I don't know if its intentional, but MS products are not exactly easy to reverse engineer. Thanks, release us from the horror that is AD on XP!

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    Spencer Ogden

  3. Re:Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not surprised they chucked you off the project then. In the long run, it makes sense to try to work well with others, even if it does mean short term compromises.

    You need to learn from your social mistakes in the same way you learn from coding/design errors.

  4. Re:Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Helpful hint: most other human beings don't see the sort of social pathology you just described as being something to pat yourself on the back for.

    Good luck in your chosen career as a lone-gunman coder.

  5. Re:several additional daemons by lkcl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    samba tng is still going: i don't actively work on it but elrond does.

    samba tng was, and still is, capable of acting as a PDC for thousands - yes, thousands - of users.

    samba tng is the only PDC that doesn't fall over when a few hundred students all simultaneously log in at once.

    i stopped working on samba tng because it was too distressing.

    and you know just as well as i do that better ideas are useless when there is a monopoly power already in place.

  6. Re:Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton by lkcl · · Score: 3, Insightful

    jeremy, can i suggest that you read _all_ of the comments that i have made here?

    a basic summary of those comments is that i accept responsibility for my failings.

    can you do the same?

    also - there is nothing wrong with my memory. i remember every painful word, every hurtful comment - mine, yours and andrew's.