samba development

[Trevor Antczak]

Luke,

I have rarely been an active participant on this list, but I have been lurking
for most of six months.  I have sitting behind me right now, because of your
coding efforts, and in part because of your advice on this list, a working
Linux PDC of a Windows NT network.  It has been working in a production
environment for almost 5 months now.  I have seen others post on this list
similar stories.  Your work here has done a huge amount of good toward the
goal of truly making Samba a "Drop in Unix replacement for a Windows NT
server" as the first book I ever read on the subject promised it would be.  It
is my opinion, as someone who actively consults in the field, with real
customers, that PDC support is critical to making Samba fulfill it's
potential.   I wish you well, and thank you for what you have done this far.
I just thought you should know that, whoever has been discouraging you, there
are plenty of us that would encourage you to continue.

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> i started on the nt domains for unix project on the basis of paul ashton's
> enthusiastic and "this can't be too hard" attitude, back in august 97.
>
> since then, with the encouragement of a number of people over the last
> three years, and with the discouragement of others, the nt domains
> protocols are now pretty well understood.
>
> due to that constant discouragement, i no longer find it as enjoyable to
> work on samba as i did.  the enjoyment from discovering new ground is no
> longer offset by the constant dismissal of the ideas and solutions that i
> come up with.
>
> those solutions come from a far-sighted understanding of what is involved,
> and what can be achieved.  i never intend to just "solve the problem at
> hand", i intend to think ahead of what can be achieved both now _and_ in
> the future.
>
> to that end, the constant dismissal of my development approach, the
> constant dismissal of coding solutions, the constant dismissal of designs,
> is just too much.
>
> if anyone can think of a solution to this, please let me know.  in the
> mean-time, i shall find other projects to work on.
>
> all the best,
>
> luke

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Thank you,
Trevor Antczak
Technology Manager
Steinmetz & Associates