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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."
Work for Peace!
In addition to "Samba Experts" and "Linuix Support Now", I saw several for "Adidas Samba" ... which is a running shoe - more via Google - although not relevent to the article, I'll give Google an "A" for effort with that match.
Hulk SMASH Celiac Disease
smbclient \\\\I\\hate\\backslashes
Surely if anyone deserves this title it's Andrew Tridgell.
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?
No disrespect or nothin', but did he write his own questions, too?
This wasn't an interview, this was a press release!
Oh well, such is the way of the world, I guess...
--LWM
Arrr. Samba-3 development an' support will continue until at least 2008. O'er that time 't will be gi'en th' ability t' integrate more seamlessly wi' Windows Active Directory an' its clients. Remote captainship features will be further expanded, an' a new remote procedure call infrastructure will replace th' current one, which will be keelhauled. Arrr. Additional facilities bein' added will assist sites that be havin' specific Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. Th' myriad o' new technologies in Samba-4 will be aft-ported t' Samba-3, thus narrowin' th' gap between th' two versions. Samba-4 will ship within th' next voyage an' will live alongside Samba-3 fer a long time. Both versions will strive t' reduce resource requirements an' improve efficiency. Documentation improvements will also continue t' be made, wi' greater focus on support o' deployment an' wi' a lesser focus on th' nuts an' bolts in its internals.
I was under the impression that Tridge was Mr. SAMBA -- and I'm actually curious as to what the man's been up to since that whole OSDL/Linus/Bitkeeper debacle. Oh well.
Keeping multiple user bases is a pain, so I would be very greateful for out-of-box LDAP Integration. And please please a better design for SWAT.
exit();
...just about Samba 3. Samba 4 info can be found here
There was nothing about dancing! Geeze!
Evil people don't think they're evil. - George Lucas, Making of Ep III
\\84.143.213.155\sam_1 (f)\share
Wahhh lots of illegal p0rn
I believe Samba to be one of the great server-side pieces of software in Open Source for companies to slowly switch. This past week, I actually just switched my company's fileserver, and another computer doing domain logon into a single computer doing it all. Easy administration, small footprint (in comparison to windows) and shows restarts are rarely required ;) Next is to switch their desktops too! hehe
Ahem. Was I suppose to take this guy seriously? I mean, come on. I'm supposed to care about Linux because of... the children?
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
"Linux and open source software...is a first step to securing a better future for our children...."
I am a big fan of Samba, but even I think that's a pretty lofty statement.
That's how it looks when someone knows how to answer questions. If you go back and look at those questions again you will see some real barbs. Allow me to point out some of the more dangerous ones:
For businesses, what is adopting Linux the first step toward?
This question came 2/3rds down the article when Linux was mentioned for the first time outside of the site name. The reporter is asking him to justify his product's and free software's existence. That a big question you can lose in daily details. His answer, "Linux is a first step toward organizational independence from single-vendor IT sources," is just what people want to hear.
Could you name a couple of other Samba-3 features that have a niche and are only used in those niches?
This is a follow up to another question that together are tricky. The first question asked him, "What are the primary capabilities of Samba-3 ..." John avoided the trap by not answering the first question litterally with one or two things and then rejecting the notion Samba is a "niche" product useful only to a few dozen small shops.
Those kinds of questions are classic. His answers are simply up to task. If you don't appreciate it, just let someone like Jan grill you one day. From a distance, behind good cover like John, the words look like honey. When they are in your face and you are trying to get other things done, they can look very hard. She's has been around longer than Linux and knows how to get a story. Bad answers to any of these questions would look bad but good answers are equally good.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
That interview was an aweful lot like a press release. Is this guy making money on Samba somehow?
-matthew
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS ONLY ME." -Death
For the first time dog programmer!
Some of my co-workers who have macs have mentioned similar problems. (They phrase it as "printing from macs doesn't work," but I assume MacOS X also uses Samba for this, and they're experiencing the same problem I was.)
It's just extremely hard to chase a moving target.
Find free books.
I've got that book, Samba 3 By Example, and while Samba documentation has historically left a lot to be desired, this book is by far the most worthless bit of documentation (about Samba at least) that money can buy. Do yourself a favor, save a tree, save your wallet, and don't buy this book. The online HOWTO will get you much further and make you want to rip out your hair much less than Samba 3 By Example.
Everybody was F U D Fighting!
Those hacks were fast as lightning!
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
if you go to the mandriva web stie (and you know with a long, hard to prounuce and spell name, aint got long for this world) you can follow one of the review links to....
(during install)
All hardware, such as graphics and sound, are configured and tested at this point. It's essential that the correct resolution for your monitor is chosen here as it isn't possible to change it to use a higher one without returning to the installation process.
Is this for real ? I can't believe that you have to set monitor res during install.
I set up a University print server with lpd, netatalk, and samba 5 years ago and had no significant problems. I'm currently running a cups and samba print server in a company and have no problems at all.
Maybe Samba isn't your problem. As they say, a bad tradesman blames his tools.
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
John will be speaking at SCALE 4x this year. SCALE 4x, the 2006 southern California Linux Expo will be held on Feb 11-12, 2006. It is a grass roots / community run linux and open-source conference based in Los Angeles. Their Call For Papers is still open.
Everybody was Kung-FUD fighting
Those hacks were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they crack 'en expert typing.
They were funky Hacking dudes from funky IRC
They were hacking them up and they were hacking them down
It's an ancient Cracker art and everybody knew their part
From a p0f into nmap, and cracking with l0pht.
Everybody was Kung-FUD fighting
Those hacks were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they hack with typing a blazin'.
There was funky K'vin Mitnick and little Jon Johansen.
He said here comes the big mafia, lets get it on
We ping their host and made a stand, started DoS'ing with deft of a hand
The sudden BSOD made me lurch, now we're into a brand new stepping stones.
Everybody was kung-FUD fighting
Those hacks were fast as lightning
In fact it was a little bit frightning
But they flip it with incredible l33t typin'.
(repeat)..make sure you have expert typing
Kung-FUD fighting, had to be fast as lightning
Everybody was Kung-FUD fighting ...
+Funny, well-crafted parody, made me laugh.
-kgj
-kgj
I thought Samba like windows had no future.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
I'm not so sure microsofts really in the game anymore. I'm [not] afraid it takes more than money to innovate.
A ribbon? What cockamainey b.s. Its just a toolbar, but bigger? Supposedly the first update to Office since o95 itself... color me unexcitied.
-AC