[Samba] Samba4 - PDC - RHEL6 - Slow browsing from Mac clients

[Ryan Bair]

I've been running netatalk for my OS X clients with great success. The
performance isn't as good as Windows to Samba, but its a HUGE improvement
over any version of OS X with any SMB server. 30 seconds with wireshark
will tell you why OS X's browsing performance is so horrible.

Another point of OS X/Samba misinformation is that Apple dropped Samba
which is an SMB server. OS X's SMB client never shared any code with Samba
any did not change as a result of the Samba purge.

Here's hoping 10.9's SMB driver is as improved as Apple is claiming it to
be.

On Oct 11, 2013 12:40 PM, "Jeremy Allison" <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 04:15:35PM +0000, Paul Older wrote:
> > On 11/10/2013 17:04, "Jeremy Allison" <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:36:41AM +0000, Paul Older wrote:
> > >>   *   A few years ago, Samba made changes to their licensing meaning
> > >>Apple could apparently no longer use it in a commercial release (so
> I've
> > >>read)
> > >
> > >No No No !!!!!
> > >
> > >"Apple could apparently no longer use it in a commercial release"
> > >
> > >I *hate* this myth, it's *completely* untrue. Where
> > >did you read this ?
> >
> > Apologies - my source is quite unofficial and now also apparently wrong.
> > For info, I read it here:
> >
> >
> http://www.tuaw.com/2011/03/24/apple-to-drop-samba-networking-tools-from-li
> > on
> >
> > As Mac OS X adopted more of Samba's tools, the team behind Samba
> gradually
> > transformed the open source licensing for its software. The latest
> version
> > of Samba is offered only with General Public License Version 3 (GPLv3
> > <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>) licensing, which includes
> > restrictions that essentially prevent Apple from incorporating it into
> > commercially packaged software like Mac OS X.
>
> "essentially prevent" == "Stops Apple from suing Samba or Samba users over
> their patents".
>
> Is how you have to read that.
>
> Jeremy.
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