samba development

[Alach, Zachary]

Hi
You know what - I am just a user. I have subscribed to Samba-NTdom for 3
years and have posted once (I ran a small network).

I don't have any weight in this discussion, however, I have an opinion:
I subscribe to NTdom and not SAMBA-list because NTdom is more fun

conversations are better - without much programming I have quietly learnt
many things, and am privaleged to be on the fringe of such a project

I think all issues in public forum are bound to be harazdous for the
passionate
I believe that continued public forum will eventually achieve the best end -
may need patience though
Personally I want an awesome file and print server and I want the team to do
radical stuff (too much to ask? - specially as I am not really involved)

Thanks SAMBA team
Thanks NTdom
Thanks Luke your comments are always fun
Thanks for allowing this input



-----Original Message-----
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [mailto:lkcl at samba.org]
Sent: Thursday, 17 August 2000 10:10
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
Subject: Re: samba development


> In other words -- from R&D to production.

that's been happening for two to three years.  the problem comes when it
is "assessed" that those people responsible for the production releases do
not accept the development of ideas, despite proof-of-concept bloody well
staring at them in the face.

i admit that i have not outlined _all_ of the aims behind the samba
dce/rpc development: i am basically aiming for a portable [that means no
threads] ms-compatible dce/rpc development environment.

to that end, various "short-cuts" that have been proposed, such as the one
by andrew tridgell yesterday on the samba-technical mailing list do not
pull any weight.  arguments such as, "it is unlikely that" and "not
frequently used" combined with "too complex a concept" to conclude that
"the idea is therefore not justifiable" just do not pull any weight when
aiming to provide the sort of functionality that a dce/rpc environment
requires.

it is somewhat unfortunate that samba is in fact "just a file and print
server".  i have been trying to break out the dce/rpc services for some
time.

perhaps the suggestion i had of breaking out an independent source fork
has merit.