[ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

[Simon Greenwood]

On 3 March 2011 12:23, Alan Lord (News) <alanslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>> OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would
>> appear that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using
>> Samba. The people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and use
>> SSHFS instead, which is built into Nautilus, the reason being that Samba
>> is an implementation of Microsoft's SMB networking protocol that is
>> mostly reverse engineered, and as such is not well documented and prone
>> to bugs.
>>
>
> Erm, that's not actually correct.
>
> This is no longer the case http://news.samba.org/announcements/pfif/
>
> 20 December 2007
> Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Docs
>
> Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit
> organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement
> with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully
> interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to
> make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.
>
> Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as
> part of the European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust
> lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on September 17th
> 2007.
>
>
Yes, I know about that, but I thought that the full implementation is only
in Samba 4. I genuinely don't know how much has been ported into 3, which is
still the version in most Linux distributions. I am a bit out of date with
it.

s/

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