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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. 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.