apple's samba on mac os x server

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 10:56:58AM -0500, Chad Cunningham wrote:
> 
> This is probably a long shot, but does anyone know what apple has done to 
> samba on mac os x server? reading through the docs, it sounds like they 
> have modified it to authenticate via netinfo. At the very least, they've 
> done something so that rather than having an smbpasswd file, it stores the 
> windows encrypted passwords in netinfo, and it authenticates incoming 
> requests via netinfo rather than a password file. I'm wondering if they 
> did this to samba or if they have some sort of bridge somewhere, or what. 
> If they modified samba, as it's GPL, they'd have to publish the changes, 
> right? Did they talk to any of the samba folks about how they've done 
> this? I can find no info anywhere on apple's site...

Yes, they did talk to us. I told them they must release the changes
to Samba as source code. As netinfo is a MacOS/X system library they
don't have to publish that source (in the same way Solaris doesnt'
have to publish libc just because it links with Samba).

Jeremy.