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Samba 4 Technology Preview Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-may-eat-your-cat dept.

daria42 writes "Samba creator Andrew Tridgell has officially released a technology preview of Samba 4 at the Linux.conf.au conference in New Zealand, ending a three-year wait for users. But wait before upgrading those servers. 'It may eat your cat,' says the Samba team in a statement, 'but is far more likely to choose to munch on your password database.'" From the article: "'Samba 4 supports the server-side of the Active Directory logon environment used by Windows 2000 and later, so we can do full domain join and domain logon operations with these clients,' the group said in a statement on its Web site, noting this feature was 'the main emphasis' for the new software."

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  1. Finally! by Sircus · · Score: 0, Troll

    They've implemented the long awaited pussy-eating feature!

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  2. Only 6 years by dJOEK · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, in 2006, Samba is finally able to do what windows was able in 2000?

    Way to innovate, OSS community!

    (Yes, i know i'm burning karma here. See if i care. you know that i'm right on this)

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    1. Re:Only 6 years by dJOEK · · Score: -1, Troll

      Five years to reverse engineer a difficult, obfuscated protocol is quite frankly amazing

      Five years of poking a black box with a stick is such an immense waste of time that it's only possible in academic circles, and only applauded by free-hugging hippies that have spent those 5 years playing nethack to kill time, then go off ranting about how great and amazing an accomplishment Samba is.

      If they focused their time, energy and skill on something that would integrate seamlessly with windows, unix and others, would be a breeze to set up and have more features, be free, faster and more secure, everybody would've used that, and they would've been done 3 years ago.

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  3. And in other news by wetfeetl33t · · Score: 0, Troll

    And in other news...
    Steve Ballmer was seen throwing chairs through his office's fourth floor windows in an angry rage.

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    1. Re:And in other news by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 0, Troll

      That's because he found more hair on his pillow.

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  4. Re:Which version of Active Directory? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Isn't Vista a desktop OS?

    so, no.