svn commit: samba-web r1283 - in trunk: .

[obnox at samba.org]

Author: obnox
Date: 2009-04-03 16:19:03 +0000 (Fri, 03 Apr 2009)
New Revision: 1283

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=1283

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Michael


Modified:
   trunk/index.html


Changeset:
Modified: trunk/index.html
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--- trunk/index.html	2009-04-01 13:09:35 UTC (rev 1282)
+++ trunk/index.html	2009-04-03 16:19:03 UTC (rev 1283)
@@ -19,6 +19,68 @@
 
     <h2>Current Release</h2>
 
+    <h4>3 April 2009</h4>
+    <p class="headline">Samba and GUIs</p>
+
+    <p>Krishna Ganugapati recently in an 
+    <a
+    href="http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2009/03/31/interview-with-krishna-ganugapati-vp-of-engineering-likewise-software/">interview</a>
+    pointed out that
+    Samba has no GUI style tools. Krishna is probably referring to Samba's 
+    capability to be configured by editing the configuration in the smb.conf
+    file.</p>
+    
+    <ul>
+    <li><p>Even though command shell geeks may still prefer this method, the team
+      addresses the main goal of Samba to provide seamless interoperability
+      with Windows clients. So, in its best sense, the Microsoft Management
+      Console is the GUI. We provide the RPC-based infrastructure for Windows
+      administrators to configure Samba using the tools they are used to.</p>
+    
+      <p>Some of those RPC services were provided a couple of years ago by
+      Centeris, now renamed to
+      <a href="http://www.likewisesoftware.com">Likewise</a>,
+      the company Krishna is working for. Thanks for that, we hope there will be
+      more contributions to Samba like that from Likewise in the future!</p>
+    
+    </li>
+    
+    <li><p>Michael Adam has done great work to make the registry-based configuration
+      happen. With Samba 3.2 and even more so with Samba 3.3 you can configure
+      everything you can not do via the MMC with your well-known regedit.exe 
+      from Windows. This very well matches expectations of Windows administrators:
+      The normal day-to-day administration is done via the MMC, and when it comes
+      down to fine-tuning, you need to dive into the registry.</p>
+    
+      <p>For an introduction to the registry configuration, see Michael's <a
+      href="http://www.samba.org/~obnox/presentations/linux-kongress-2008/lk2008-obnox.pdf">paper</a>,
+      presented at the Linux Kongress 2008, published in the proceedings with ISBN
+      978-3-86541-300-0.</p></li>
+    
+    <li><p>G&uuml;nther Deschner has developed a gtk-based utility to join a
+      domain. Screenshots can be found on <a
+      href="http://samba.org/~gd/netdomjoin-gui/">samba.org</a>. This shipped with
+      Samba 3.2.0 and can be compiled easily wherever the gtk libraries are
+      available. See the <a
+      href="http://sambaxp.org/files/SambaXP2008-DATA/01-07-Guenther_Deschner-joining_a_domain.pdf">slides</a> of G&uuml;nther's 2008 SambaXP talk.</p></li>
+    </ul>
+
+     <p>We also take issue with Likewise's claim
+       that pushing changes upstream into Samba is a challenge.</p>
+
+     <p>The Samba project has many corporate contributors
+       who have found that working <b>with</b> the Open Source/Free Software
+       Community is preferable to developing a parallel
+       technology under their sole control. Companies
+       such as IBM, HP, Intel, Apple, Red Hat, Novell, Isilon,
+       Data Domain, ReadyNAS (now NetGear) and Veritas (now Symantec) have
+       worked with the Samba Team to create a shared, compelling file, print
+       and authentication service that can be used by
+       everyone and is developed as a community of equals.</p>
+
+    <p>Volker Lendecke and Jeremy Allison<br>
+    Samba Team</p>
+
     <h4><a name="latest">1 April 2009</a></h4>
     <p class="headline">Samba 3.3.3 Available for Download</p>