[haiku-development] Re: [GSoC] improper name for "Porting SAMBA" task

François Revol wrote:
> As someone proposed doing it and after reading the description, it has 
> come to me that this title is plain wrong for the description that goes 
> with it.

Thanks for pointing this out, François.

> Porting SAMBA itself, that is the server + command line client is an 
> entirely different thing as writing a CIFS client (=kernel file system).
> Of course there is a CIFS client for Linux in samba sources, but it's 
> nowhere portable (and GPL).
> 
> This item must at least be clarified, or maybe split or made clear there 
> are 2 things for it.

Since it is more important to connect to SMB shares of other computers 
(especially real servers, for example in film schools ;-), I have changed 
the ticket accordingly. We could have a separate ticket for poting SAMBA, 
in order to create shares from within Haiku, but the CIFS implementation 
would be more useful as a first step IMHO.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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