On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 09:12:11PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/5/2012 9:23 AM, Sam Bulka wrote: > > Stan Hoeppner <stan <at> hardwarefreak.com> > >> > >> Samba is not MS Windows. Just because a feature exists in MS Windows > >> does not make it "basic" translated "expected" in other platforms. If > >> you were a long time Samba/*nix user and switched to MS Windows you'd > >> have the same complaint in reverse (though there are few such defections). > > > > Samba was initially developed by watching Windows network protocol to allow > > share files btw Linux and Windows. Of course its expected to offer basic > > features Windows users are used to when sharing files with Windows. > > Yes, of course, and it does. But you're missing the point. The feature > in question isn't part of the SMB/CIFS protocol stack, thus Samba can't > duplicate it. It's an operating system specific feature implemented in, > and unique to, MS Windows. Microsoft controls both their SMB/CIFS code > stack and their operating system code. Thus they are free to create > internal proprietary interfaces between the two that provide unique > functionality. > > The Samba team doesn't control the Linux, *BSD, AIX, Solaris, etc > operating system code, so they can't simply add the interfaces to each > OS that are necessary to implement what you call the "basic" > functionality that Microsoft provides. It's not "basic" functionality > at all, but extended functionality, as it's not part of the SMB/CIFS > stack. It's proprietary. > > I'm guessing that due to your lack of knowledge of software development > models that you didn't understand anything I just stated above. So I'll > boil it down to this: > > If you critically need this feature, switch back to MS Windows. It will > likely never be implemented in a Samba+OS stack.
Well, what we might be able to do is to add a scripting interface to the "available" parameter that is checked every time the share is about to be accessed. This would give a flexible interface to whatever the OS provides. Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:[email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
