Hi Lars, On 1 Oct 2011, at 16:07, Lars Müller wrote: > On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 09:48:12AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: >> >> On 1 Oct 2011, at 01:34, J.P. King wrote: >>> Anton will be asleep, so I'll attempt to answer this one. >>> >>>> What server code is the OES CIFS server running ? I thought Novell CIFS >>>> services were all Samba based. >>> >>> We have been told by the people upstairs who run the server that it isn't. >> >> It is not Samba based. Like Apple, Novell have written their own since Samba decided to go GPLv3… > > (Potential) FUD alert. ;) It wasn't deliberate! It was just a guess as until recently I also though that OES just used Samba so when I two weeks ago found out that it didn't I just assumed that Novell must have written it recently and then drew the parallel to Apple and just assumed that it was an analogous case… > This Novell CIFS server existed before Novell bought SUSE. And the > decission to go with it instead of Samba had nothing to do with the move > of Samba from GPL v2 to v3. I stand corrected. Thanks for the clarification! From your signature I guess you would know a lot better than most. (-: Best regards, Anton > Lars > -- > Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] > Samba Team > SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
