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Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the this'll-end-well dept.

JP writes "Andrew Bartlett of Samba fame has written a document describing their recent collaboration with Microsoft's Active Directory team. In brief, it would seem that the sky is falling, as Microsoft's engineers seem to be really committed to making Samba fully interoperable with AD. They have organized interoperability fests and have knowledgeable engineers answering technical questions without legal or marketing drones getting in the way. However according to Andrew the Samba AD team is currently very short on manpower, so if you have network experience, now is the time to get coding."

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  1. God dammit..., corrected "What does this mean?" by GuloGulo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "In brief, it would seem that the sky is falling, as Microsoft's engineers seem to be really committed to making Samba fully interoperable with AD"

    The bolded part is a euphemism for "disaster in progress".

    Forgive my naivety, but isn't this a good thing (as much as MS collaboration can be)? Why is this a "sky is falling" situation?

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  2. They're Grrrrreeaaaat! by Windows_NT · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yea Tony the Tiger!
    Samba is great, Ive set up countless machines with it, but the big stumbling block i see right now is the integration with ADS replication. I know Samba 3 is supposed to have it, but it sounds like it will be minimum support. I would like to see where i could unplug one ADS server, plug in a Samba server and have no problems. Other than that, Samba is already a great product and I think working with M$ will only make it better.
    Cheers to Samba, and Cheers to MS for "Opening windows to a wider world."

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