MS "breaking" Samba

[Buchan Milne]

File permissions for done don't show the file owner/group, instead
something that looks like an SID.

Buchan

"Arjona, Ariel" wrote:
> 
> I've been running SAMBA 2.0.6-48 on SuSE6.4, and didn't have any problems
> seeing the shares with my w2k workstation.
> What are the problems people have with SAMBA < 2.0.7?
> 
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> Ariel Arjona
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> 
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Simo Sorce [SMTP:simo.sorce at polimi.it]
>         Sent:   Tuesday, September 26, 2000 11:39 AM
>         To:     Gerald Carter
>         Cc:     Paul Leach; samba-ntdom at samba.org
>         Subject:        Re: MS "breaking" Samba
> 
>         Gerald Carter wrote:
>         >
>         > Long message notice.....
>         >
>         > Simo Sorce wrote:
>         > >
>         > > > Paul Leach wrote:
>         > > >
>         > > > We have never added any improvements (or
>         > > > non-improvements) to the protocols in order to
>         > > > "break" Samba (or to affect it in any way at
>         > > > all).  We tested Win2k against Samba as a file
>         > > > server to make sure that it continued to work
>         > > > as a "down-level" server, along with NT4,
>         > > > OS/2, Windows 9x, and others. Of course, it (just
>         > > > like NT4) would not support the new Windows
>         > > > 2000 features, by which we hope to entice our
>         > > > customers to upgrade by providing new value to them.
>         > > >
>         > > > Just to be clear: we didn't test Win2k against Samba as
>         > > > a DC; we did test against NT4 DCs, however, so if
>         > > > Samba really does emulate all NT4 DC functionality,
>         > > > it should have been OK.
>         > > >
>         > > > Paul
>         >
>         > Hi Paul.  Haven't head a peep from you in a while.  Hope
>         > things are well.  Just though I would inject that first.
>         >
>         > > I'm not a Samba team member, but as I remember Samba
>         > > needed to upgrade from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7 just to serve files
>         > > to Win2k machines, so your claim that you tested Win
>         > > 2000 against Samba to ensure compatibility as file
>         > > server must be false!
>         > >
>         > > DC functionality was not supported so testing against it
>         > > was obviously not required, anyway win2k does not
>         > > function with samba 2.0.x in NT4 compatibility mode(how
>         > > much compatible is then??)
>         > >
>         > > I hate to see this kind of statements from employee of
>         > > a company that is proven to have made unfair practices, I
>         > > think that if you care your personal reputation you
>         > > should check twice and prove your statements before speaking.
>         >
>         > Simo,  Antagonism doesn't help.  :-)    MS did clean
>         > up many things in Win2k.  Perhaps the complaint is that
>         > all the changes were not documented. (hey paul ;) )
>         >
>         > So i will make another plea.  (quoting from a previous
>         > request by Luke).  Any (or all) of the information
>         > would be a good thing.
>         >
>         >         i will move this off list after the
>         >         initial request in case you would like
>         >         to discuss this further
>         >
>         > .....begin plea.........................
> 
>         I've not said they have broken things or they have not cleened up
> the
>         code, I said they cannot claim to have tested win2k against samba
> for
>         compatibility as as far I remember (am I correct) samba < 2.0.7 will
> not
>         be able to serve file to win2k and 2.0.7 come out after win2k also
> to
>         resolve this problem.
>         Am I wrong?
> 
>         --
>         Simo Sorce - Integrazione Sistemi Unix/Windows - Politecnico di
> Milano
>         E-mail: simo.sorce at polimi.it
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