Running Samba (smbd fileserver) on Windows!

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 03:38:00PM +1300, Garming Sam wrote:
> I have a proof of concept of smbd running on Bash on Windows.
> 
> https://www.samba.org/~garming/
> 
> It's just running as guest, with a few hacks but it appears I can
> transfers files to and from the share running inside the Windows Linux
> subsystem. The fact that it mostly just works is quite scary.
> 
> What's also interesting is that Samba actually fills one of the obvious
> shortcomings of the system as it is right now. While you can expose the
> C:/ drive on Windows to the internal Linux system, the converse is not
> true. The Linux files store their additional information as extended
> attributes and so modifying them on Windows easily destroys or corrupts
> this information. But if you have Samba, you can now display a logical
> view over SMB.
> 
> I'm not sure about how well it performs, but it's almost certainly going
> to be better than anything like Cygwin. If it's at the point where Samba
> can sort of run on it, who knows what else it could do. The fact
> Microsoft are the ones who effectively got smbd running on Windows is a
> bit topsy-turvy but I guess that is the world right now.

w00t! Garming - this is an *amazing* result ! I remember asking if
it worked a few weeks ago but thought there were a few syscalls
missing.

I think this post might well go on the "News" page on samba.org !

Well done - and thanks a *LOT* for doing this work !

Jeremy.