On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote:
OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would
appear that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using
Samba. The people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and use
SSHFS instead, which is built into Nautilus, the reason being that Samba
is an implementation of Microsoft's SMB networking protocol that is
mostly reverse engineered, and as such is not well documented and prone
to bugs.
Erm, that's not actually correct.
This is no longer the case http://news.samba.org/announcements/pfif/
20 December 2007
Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Docs
Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit
organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an
agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to
fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products
and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.
Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors
as part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the
antitrust lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on
September 17th 2007.
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