On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Jim McDonough <jmcd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/ Key point is - we will fix the Linux cifs kernel client to make reasonable workarounds for server bugs for something like this - especially if the server is easy to download and/or test against (and assuming it supports reasonable security - ntlmv2 and/or kerberos) -- Thanks, Steve -- 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
