RE: alternative to samba
- From: "Grant Allen" <Grant.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:24:52 +1100
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> Stephen.Lee@xxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 March 2004 07:31
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> Subject: RE: alternative to samba
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>
> Somewhere in my foggy memories of fiddling with Samba, I keep
> thinking that
> it is used FTP under the covers. Which would imply that
> there are usernames
> and passwords flying around. Which would imply that those
> companies going
> whole hog with the Sardines Oxley stuff would have issues with it.
>
> It's been a long time since I messed around with it, so it's
> highly possible
> that I'm all wrong here.
Indeed, I think the fog is thinker than you realise :-). FTP isn't the basis
for Samba - Andrew Tridgwell and his colleagues reverse engineered the CIFS/SMB
protocol ... it's all native. As for "support" disappearing any time soon,
I'll mention that to Andrew ... he'll get a laugh.
Ciao
Fuzzy
:-)
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