----- Forwarded message from Dan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:41:32 +0930 From: Dan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Samba porting To: Steven Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organisation: shearer.org x-mailer: Mutt User-Agent: Mutt
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:33:50AM -0400, Steven Edwards wrote: > Hi Dan, > > On 8/27/07, Dan Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > Somehow or other I managed to overlook the work you did a while ago > > porting Samba4 to Windows. How far did you get? Is anything published? > > Well done anyway, and I'd like to investigate taking it further. > > Not a lot made it in to the 4.0 tree as I moved on to other projects though > its funny you should drop me a note. I was actually thinking about it > recently. Well I'd be very interested in seeing it move on again. As well as being @samba.org I'm @openchange.org, and for the client-side libmapi we need a Windows port of Samba4 right now. OpenChange isn't able to motivate and sustain a port by ourselves, but we are able to contribute and test. > > The Samba team has not previously been terribly enthusiastic about a > > Windows port, but I think there are enough who see the need for it now > > for a Windows target to become supported. There's a few ifs and buts of > > course, and questions about how deep the integration should go, and so > > on. > > When I spoke with Tridge about it he liked the idea, if for no other reason > for > a performance comparison and to aid in reverse engineering. My point regarding Samba is (and always has been) a much deeper one. Native AD on Windows is the path to confining all Microsoft protocols to Windows and having only LDAP outside the Windows machine, if you get the Windows machine to logon to itself. This has great value in killing off insane protocol on the wire while retaining full semantics locally. And Samba4 is mature enough right now to handle a single login in an environment where you're not worried about external security. That's just one of the non-convential applications I see, one I see as having the potential to really shake up corporate IT. A lot of companies regard AD as a problem and have a global LDAP that would suit. > "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and > that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo Which is now, in my opinion :-) What would the first step be to re-start this? -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Dan Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.openchange.org/listinfo/devel
