I am continually amazed each time a major release of Samba comes out how well it works. My question is, I know that the Samba group has been working towards make Samba a suitable replacement for NT. How far do you expect that to go. I know you're in a continual battle with MS changing things with every minor release, but do you expect to someday get to the point where I can completely replace my NT PDC machine with a Unix/Linux box that has the same functionality? Perhaps the same question stated differently is what are the long term goals for the project in relation to NT PDC Server compatibility? Any estimates on how long such compatibility will take?
I am yet again amazed that the/. crowd, which seems to be have a large Open Source/Linux crowd, would criticize a post such as this one. One of great hallmarks of linux is it's compatibility to older stuff, especially hardware. Try running the latest m$ OS on an old piece of hardware on an old network and see just how well it does. At least with linux you have a chance. Why should people care if someone decides to Open Source xyz protocol? You're certainly not forced to use it. Most likely it will be of benefit to someone, even if it is to see where someone else went wrong.:) I know this is flamebait.
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I am continually amazed each time a major release of Samba comes out how well it works. My question is, I know that the Samba group has been working towards make Samba a suitable replacement for NT. How far do you expect that to go. I know you're in a continual battle with MS changing things with every minor release, but do you expect to someday get to the point where I can completely replace my NT PDC machine with a Unix/Linux box that has the same functionality?
Perhaps the same question stated differently is what are the long term goals for the project in relation to NT PDC Server compatibility?
Any estimates on how long such compatibility will take?
Thanks again for all the hard work!!
I am yet again amazed that the /. crowd, which seems to be have a large Open Source/Linux crowd, would criticize a post such as this one. One of great hallmarks of linux is it's compatibility to older stuff, especially hardware. Try running the latest m$ OS on an old piece of hardware on an old network and see just how well it does. At least with linux you have a chance. Why should people care if someone decides to Open Source xyz protocol? You're certainly not forced to use it. Most likely it will be of benefit to someone, even if it is to see where someone else went wrong. :) I know this is flamebait.