Client for Samba Networks

[Simo Sorce]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 03:48:04PM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 05:42:02PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > 
> > > He does hit upon a very important point though. If such a thing were
> > > enabled, it would have simplified the job of interoperability greatly.
> > > In fact Samba might never have come into being.
> > 
> > Ahh...how quickly you have forgotten PC-NFS.  The reason Samba is so
> > popular is that it requires no client side changes.  As a former sysadmin,
> > being able to control the server is much easier than trying to control
> > Windows desktop clients.  In fact, think of what it would take to upgrade
> > a redirector of a network of moderate size.  Now think of what it takes
> > to upgrade 30 Samba servers to fix a interop problem with a new service
> > pack.
> 
> I used to support PC-NFS for Sun. I still have nightmares about it... so
> I definately can't forget it :-).
> 
> A free - *working* - nfs client for Windows would have changed things
> greatly (IMHO :-).

A free - *working* - operating system for desktop PC would have changed
things greatly IMHO ;-)

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Simo Sorce       idra at samba.org
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