lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2011]   [Oct]   [1]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: CIFS kernel module bug
From
Date
Hi Lars,

On 1 Oct 2011, at 16:07, Lars Müller wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 09:48:12AM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>>
>> On 1 Oct 2011, at 01:34, J.P. King wrote:
>>> Anton will be asleep, so I'll attempt to answer this one.
>>>
>>>> What server code is the OES CIFS server running ? I thought Novell CIFS
>>>> services were all Samba based.
>>>
>>> We have been told by the people upstairs who run the server that it isn't.
>>
>> It is not Samba based. Like Apple, Novell have written their own since Samba decided to go GPLv3…
>
> (Potential) FUD alert. ;)

It wasn't deliberate! It was just a guess as until recently I also though that OES just used Samba so when I two weeks ago found out that it didn't I just assumed that Novell must have written it recently and then drew the parallel to Apple and just assumed that it was an analogous case…

> This Novell CIFS server existed before Novell bought SUSE. And the
> decission to go with it instead of Samba had nothing to do with the move
> of Samba from GPL v2 to v3.

I stand corrected. Thanks for the clarification! From your signature I guess you would know a lot better than most. (-:

Best regards,

Anton

> Lars
> --
> Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
> Samba Team
> SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany

--
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2011-10-01 21:55    [W:0.065 / U:0.104 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site