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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. Samba 4 Reaches "Susan" Stage???? by datadriven · · Score: 0, Troll

    What the hell does that mean?

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  2. Re:Samba's great by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 1, Troll
    On the other hand, SMB on the windows xp and windows 98SE only works some of the time. I can always count on mine working though.

    Yeah no kidding. Probably one of the things I hate most about Microsloth Losedows is the stupid Network Neighborhood window. If I'm in a good mood and I want to become angry, all I have to do is click on Network Neighborhood, and I go from happy to pissed off in no time flat. First of all, it practically locks up the entire computer while it SEARCHES for network shares. The damn thing will search and search and search and not find anything, even though it is properly configured, and so are all the other computers, and they're connected just fine. The computers will communicate via every other protocol in the book, and Losedows will be extremely aware of the fact that they exist out there, and yet the Network Neighborhood window will just sit there and search.

    So then I do the next thing... I go into Find and go into Find Computer, and I type in the name of the computer I want. Then, Losedows will search for a few minutes, and let's say about half of the time, it will find that computer. Then, I'll click on that computer and it will take Losedows forever to open up another window.

    All the time this is happening, if I go back into, Windows Explorer and go into Network Neighborhood there, it will NOT find the computer that it is accessing perfectly well in another window. In other words, in one window it knows that everything is fine. In Windows Explorer, it will search and search, even if you tell the stupid thing to "Refresh", and it will not find it.

    Losedows is not an operating system. It is a virus.

    But on the other hand, Samba works.

    Reminds me of Plug n' Play. Microsoft invented that standard. Then, every operating system in the world, FreeBSD, BeOS, Linux, you name it, was able to find and configure supported hardware in no time. Every operating system except Windows, that is. In Windows, this standard earned the name Plug n' Pray.

    No surprise, given the fact that all of Microsloth's programmers are completely inept, a bunch of bumbling idiots, monkeys punching away at keyboards could program better, every standard that Microsoft invents works a lot better when someone else implements it.