On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 08:22 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 15:52 -0500, nicholas geovanis wrote: > > Here's a short quote from a work-related email I sent earlier today, > > announcing AD authentication from a linux VM. It expresses my awe at the > > folks who write and maintain Samba, and it's long overdue from me: > > It’s been 3 or 4 years since I configured Samba; it’s always a challenge > > for me, mainly due to my poor understanding of MSoft networking. > > +1 Samba I think often gets a bum wrap for 'complexity' by virtue of > people just not understanding how MSoft intends it to work. > > > Then when it works, > > It is crazy amazing how well it works out-of-the-box. > > > I offer a silent prayer for those crazy Australians who > > originated it. The pain they must have endured in getting it to work > > boggles my mind. In that respect it may be the most impressive open-source > > project out there, and they haven’t slowed-down in the least. > > +1 > > BTW, they accept donations <http://www.samba.org/samba/donations.html>
We do, but what helps even more are patches, wiki contributions and testing. BTW, Samba is much more a Global project these days, there are very few (it depends how you count us) active developers in Australia these days. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
