Does "non-POSIX backends" mean MS Windows?
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| AnonymousCoward Jan 17, 2005 1:52 PM EDT |
If so, this could be a fileserver-killer app. If administrators can run Samba as a service under Win2k3, then they can elide MS' painful per-seat connection licensing and still use all of their favourite native MS toys. And then one day (maybe when a hypermegaultranasty LAN virus gets loose) someone will realise that you can get by without the OS, too. BTW, Tridge wrote the core of Samba4 in one (long) day. I stand in complete awe of that level of coding ability. |
| PaulFerris Jan 17, 2005 5:22 PM EDT |
Does it really matter? With the advent of CoLinux, you can do Samba right on "native" Windows, which begs this question (prior post to LXer): http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/12712/ What do you think? :) --FeriCyde |
| robT Jan 18, 2005 5:05 AM EDT |
I have never read the MS EULA (don't use MS products that I own), so I can't say whether or not connecting to a Win box using a 3rd party app would require a Win CAL, but if it doesn't I'm sure MS can easily re-write the EULA. |
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