<div class="gmail_quote">On 3 March 2011 12:23, Alan Lord (News) <<a href="mailto:alanslists@gmail.com">alanslists@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. </blockquote> </div> Erm, that's not actually correct. This is no longer the case <a href="http://news.samba.org/announcements/pfif/" target="_blank">http://news.samba.org/announcements/pfif/</a> 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. </blockquote></div> 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 I am a bit out of date with it.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/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood<div>My CV: <a href="http://bit.ly/sfgreenwood_cv" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/sfg</a>_new_cv "Is this your sanderling?" </div>