Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Posted Jan 26, 2021 5:51 UTC (Tue) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604)
In reply to: Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana by jra
Parent article: Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Maybe a bit off-topic, but there are other SMB / CIFS servers that are free software? Asking for a friend ;)

Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Posted Jan 26, 2021 6:25 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

https://www.jcifs.org/ is the major one. There's a bunch of commercial ones, here's a good list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_that_suppo...

Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Posted Jan 26, 2021 23:24 UTC (Tue) by jra (subscriber, #55261) [Link]

jcifs is a client not a server, plus it's SMB1 only and essentially unmaintained I think. There are several SMB1/2/3 client libraries, but I think Samba is the only Free Software SMB server. There is a project implementing an SMB2-only (thank goodness they took the advice from us not to implement SMB1 :-) Linux kernel server, but time will tell if it's a great idea to add an SMB2 server into the Linux kernel :-).