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Samba Team Releases Samba 3.0 (NewsForge)

Jeremy Allison introduces Samba 3.0 in this NewsForge article. "Samba 3.0 contains the first Open Source/Free Software implementation of Windows NT Primary and Backup Domain Controller functionality. Customers can transparently migrate their existing Windows NT domains to Samba 3.0 whilst keeping their existing user and group account databases. This enables significant cost of ownership savings over a Windows NT4 domain as a Samba 3.0 Domain Controller does not require client access licenses. Existing Windows tools can be used to manage a Samba PDC, allowing customer Windows expertise to be leveraged in a domain migration. A choice of LDAP back-ends allows integration with an existing customer directory service."
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Samba Team Releases Samba 3.0 (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 25, 2003 17:31 UTC (Thu) by danny (guest, #1540) [Link]

I follow some links and I found a post of the Samba Team about SCO...
So I search here to find a place to post an idea, but, I didn't find a post to atach it, so I will put it here.
If developers read the linux kernel code and make litlle programs, useless or not, from pieces of linux kernel, will SCO burn them?

Samba Team Releases Samba 3.0 (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 25, 2003 18:14 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link]

Your question points out how ridiculous this whole business is.

If I buy a cookbook, read one of the recipes, and use my "chef's knowledge" to come up with a better version, then I give out my new recipe to my friends to share with each other, will Bruno or Vito or somebody come and break my arm?

Samba Team Releases Samba 3.0 (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 26, 2003 12:06 UTC (Fri) by cpm (subscriber, #3554) [Link]

I guess so.

If I read Melville and get an idea of how I like to construct sentences,
and write stuff on public forums using some of the style I picked up from reading; will <whoever holds the copyright to the edition i read> sue me for theft of IP?

Samba Team Releases Samba 3.0 (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 26, 2003 16:03 UTC (Fri) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]

Well, perhaps so. OCLC, who apparently hold a copyright to the Dewey Decimal System, are suing a New
York hotel...

Samba Team Releases Samba 3.0 (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 25, 2003 20:57 UTC (Thu) by pglennon (guest, #649) [Link]

Guys, screw SCO and that noise. Read the feature list for Samba 3.0. My jaw kept dropping farther and farther....

full unicode support
windows NT Domain style migration and integration ( PDC and BDC functions )
full integration with Active Directory
Single sign-on Active Directory / Linux login features...
and more...

This is well worth a resounding "wholly shit". The SAMBA guys ROCK.

-P

Samba Team Releases Samba 3.0 (NewsForge)

Posted Oct 2, 2003 8:24 UTC (Thu) by aglet (guest, #1334) [Link]

I don't think you mean "wholly shit".

This post also contains a speeling error, to maintain karmic balance.

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