[haiku-development] Re: [GSoC] improper name for "Porting SAMBA" task
- From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:02:56 +0200
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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