Join NT/win2000 into a Samba Domain

[Mike Westkamper]

A small voice from the sidelines...

You are on the verge of providing a real alternative. Not just vaporware,
but a real means to have a high-performance system that will solve the
problem of single-sourceing for a lot of us in this industry. It is
unfortunate that there are so few working on this project. Until we can
generate casts of thousands the solution is to do the best we can with
what we have. The issue of windows 9x is real. Somehow, to be widely
accepted, we must provide for it. Rather than bog the effort down perhaps
there is a way to keep the TNG going is to make provisions for a bit of
middleware. Provide the hooks such that someone can provide a layer
between SAMBA, which will support NT et al, handle the 9x subset.

This may be impractical, however with some thinking along this line maybe
we can find another to make the 9x stuff work while not impeding the
TNG/PDC/Etc that is also needed.

I will poke some others with a sharp stick and see if I can get some help.

Mike

Elrond wrote:

> Well, the explanation is quite simple:
>
> Luke hasn't much interest in win9x. (for reasons, that I
> understand.)
>
> And I haven't much interest either and I haven't got _any_
> 9x-box near me. At the university, we only have nt and some
> realy old dos-boxes, at work, there's realy only nt
> everywhere (umm... and only a few know, what samba is) and
> at home, I'm happy, that someone borrowed me his laptop
> with nt on it.
>
> And I don't know, if Luke has access to 9x...
>
> And since Luke and me are the only ones, who work on TNG...
>
>     Elrond
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:11:01AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > Edward Schernau wrote:
> > >
> > > Paul J Collins wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The only people who care about Windows 9x are the poor bastards
> > > > flogging the dead horse that is Windows Millennium Edition.
> > >
> > > Or the millions of users in the corporate world who don't have
> > > the cash or the need to upgrade to the latest MS shovelware.  Face
> > > it Win9x is here, still, and will be.  This "we only support NT,
> > > tough luck" idea is just a ridiculous conceit.
> >
> > Indeed. This is one of my problems with the TNG branch,
> > that Luke's stated position is that he doesn't care about
> > Win9x compatibility.
> >
> > Out in the real world we don't have that luxury. Backwards
> > compatibility is *king* !
> >
> > Jeremy.
> >
> > --
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Buying an operating system without source is like buying
> > a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions.
> > --------------------------------------------------------