Andrew Tridgell Joins OSDL

rumba writes "OSDL announced today that Andrew Tridgell, Samba developer, joins OSDL as the lab's second appointed Fellow. Tridgell will continue to lead global development work for the Samba project."

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Does this mean..

[aurb]

..that Samba will be integrated into the kernel?

There's gonna be trouble this year...

[mslinux]

First, Big Blue opens up 500 patents to OSS developers and OSS companies. Then we hear that Tridgell (the guy who makes Linux interoperate with Windows computers) gets a job at OSDL... is it just me or is something BIG about to go down?

I smell trouble and it smells like Sun and MS ;)

For the mere mortal geeks

[Rupy]

OSDL = Open Source Development Labs
See Wikipedia for more info

Excuse me, Simon...

[ashitaka]

When you add a great new feature such as supporting Windows machine accounts on Samba make sure your user community is aware that it will completely screw up rights assignments on your servers as the new machine accounts get assigned to old user UIDs by winbind.

I just spent a harried morning resetting all files back to their correct owners and groups.

Re:Excuse me, Simon...

[ashitaka]

You know how Winbind works with Samba right?

You set a UID and GID range in smb.conf like so:

winbind uid = 10000-20000
winbind gid = 10000-20000

So your user billg gets assigned UID 10004 for example.

Now this is all running fine until you run up2date samba or do a manual upgrade and you get the new version that suppports machine accounts. All of a sudden 10004 is now the UID for MYDELLPC$ and Bill has lost access to his files.

Lovely little gotcha.

Re:Alexandre Julliard said to join OSDL as fellow

[Almost-Retired]

to create Longhorn before Microsoft does

Chuckle... The thought positively boggles the mind. Particularly since longhorn seems to be turning into a Duke Nukem Forever or Half Life 2 all by itself. With the latest ship date still quite some time in the future, and prospects for even more delays looking pretty good, who actually knows?

However if the 3 of them can work together, I cannot see anything but public good come of it. I don't know a lot about Alexandre Julliard, but from the few messages I've had from Andrew (aka Tridg) over the years when I had samba questions for my amiga system long ago, I'm highly impressed. He has, I think, an outlook on computing thats much larger than just samba/cifs. That should mesh well with Linus.

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Cheers, Gene

Not a bad idea!

[Anonymous Coward]

Is the name "Longhorn" trademarked by MS? If not, someone should come out with a version of Linux called "Longhorn Linux" and market it to all the usual Windows web sites. Note to Redhat/Suse, THIS is how you compete with Microsoft! It's called "barely ethical, definitely underhanded market manipulation" and you guys have to get good at it if you want to survive.

"Tridge the Fridge - Cause he's cool"

[dogsend]

At least that what was written on the refridgerator in the CS common room at uni (ANU).

Tridge was held in high regard by all the students. Well grounded academically and socially.

Re:Boycott Australia

[aminorex]

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