On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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… I believe both are available on OES, samba and the CIFS server that has its origins in Netware. > >> 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/ > > -- Jim McDonough Samba Team SUSE labs jmcd at samba dot org jmcd at themcdonoughs dot 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
