On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 13:42, David Braginsky wrote: > I've seen this question asked before, but usually dismissed.... > > I was wondering how difficult it would be to port SAMBA to Windows, > using Cygwin or preferably MINGW. > > The main reason I would like to see this happen is that it would > significantly simplify filesystem development on Windows. Currently, > the only way to develop filesystems for windows is by writing a kernel > driver, or buying a $100k development kit. A basic port of SAMBA would > allow development of user-space filesystems, with neither the Windows > IFS license, or experience with Windows kernel development. > > I would love to hear suggestions as to the best way to do this port, > or better yet, that someone has already done it!
You could do this on Samba4, as that will allow you to implement a full NTFS semantic-compliant filesystem. Issues you will hit are the same issues that people hit with SSH-forwarding of CIFS, but it can work (the AFS client for Win2k is a small CIFS sever on localhost). But the IFS kit isn't the biggest problem, as people seem to have got around it by creating a public IFS header file: http://www.tuningsoft.com/resources/resources.htm -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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