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'Mr. Samba' Talks About Samba's Future
Jan Stafford writes "SearchEnterpriseLinux is running an article that gives the inside scoop from Samba guru John H. Terpstra on upcoming new features in Samba-3 and Samba-4, recent events in FUD-fighting and the benefits that businesses can realize by adopting open source early."
Samba's roadmap:
2005: copy everthing that has been in Windows 98
2006: copy everything that has been in Windows 2000
2007-2011: copy everything that has been in Windows XP
2012-2020: trying to copy everything in Longhorn
2021: getting sued by Microsoft, shutting down shop
2022: lead developers hired by MSN (former Google) to clean up the restrooms together with Larry Page and the other fugly Google-moron
I've been having troubles with Samba allowing my windows computers to connect to it. It always says that the shared drive is not accessable. I've set the drive with all privilleges and that it's open and visible. All my XP computers can see it, but it won't allow me to connect. I've shut down the firewall too. It's still a bit clunky for me. I'm sure there's something in a files somewhere I forgot to change to allow access. I just wished I could right click, share, allow privilages, and connect and do what I wanted to do. Maybe I've just really missed it on this one. New features could include, click, share, set privilages, and connect.
Generation Trance: What generation are you?
ReactOS will have replaced windows in the same way FreeDOS can replace MS-DOS today.
By that do you mean ReactOS will be able to replace a completely obsolete OS that has been superseeded by a much stronger and more market dominant OS made by the same company. If so... whoopie for open sores... we've wons ourselves a bigun'.
How come, on the edge of bankruptcy, switching Windows to Open Source saves the company? I thought the product was crap?
I honestly think in 15 years your Gentoo box will have just finished compiling Emacs for Gnome and all of the dependancies.