On 3 March 2011 12:23, Alan Lord (News) <alansli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > > Yes, I know about that, but I thought that the full implementation is only in Samba 4. I genuinely don't know how much has been ported into 3, which is still the version in most Linux distributions. I am a bit out of date with it. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood My CV: http://bit.ly/sfg <http://bit.ly/sfgreenwood_cv>_new_cv "Is this your sanderling?"
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