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BlueLightning — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:22:39 +0000

Something you could do pretty easily now without having to immediately work out how to adjust the layout would be to set the image hover text from the linked article title. I would imagine this could be done generically (depending on how the LWN content management software works, naturally).

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jake — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:43:52 +0000

> Would you please start putting captions under the photos of people's
> faces, naming those people?

It's something we should probably look into. Clicking on those photos will get you a larger version with the names of the people as a headline. Hopefully that helps some.

jake

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zooko — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:24:56 +0000

Dear LWN:

Would you please start putting captions under the photos of people's faces, naming those people? Perhaps you don't realize that some of your readers cannot already recognize all of the people involved.

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dlang — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:14:14 +0000

note that they tried to get one of the existing DNS servers to care about their issues, but weren't able to get anyone to work with them. Only after that approach failed did they decide to roll their own.

I agree with you that it's far better to integrate with an existing project rather than recreating it, but in this case it sounds like they tried

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codewiz — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:19:57 +0000

> I hope it has an integral NTP server too. The clients need to have the
> correct time for Kerberos to work, and it sure would be a pain to have
> to configure NTPd and samba separately!

I hope it gets an integral TCP/IP stack too. It's needed in order to communicate with the clients :)

Seriously, does Samba *really* need to rewrite custom versions of everything? I used to run an enterprise network in which Windows clients had to coexist with Linux and MacOS clients. Most corporate networks already have their own dns, dhcp, ldap and kerberos services and all they need the Samba DC to integrate with them--not replace them.

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abartlet — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:22:18 +0000

NTP support is via a configuration option for NTPd.

restrict default mssntp

We didn't wish to reimplement this protocol if we could avoid it. The option to point to a different NTP signing deamon (a samba service, on by default) is:

ntpsigndsocket /var/run/ntp_signd/

The NTPd on the system must have been configured with --enable-ntp-signd

Andrew Bartlett

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foom — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:07:00 +0000

I hope it has an integral NTP server too. The clients need to have the correct time for Kerberos to work, and it sure would be a pain to have to configure NTPd and samba separately!

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jonabbey — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:47:55 +0000

One presumes Samba 4 also has an integral DHCP server?

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smoogen — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:53:14 +0000

Thank you for clarifying. I am trying to make it a habit to ask before assuming one way or another.

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abartlet — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:46:52 +0000

With Jonathan Corbet smiling in the front row, I can assure readers that it was indeed friendly banter, returned in good form by being quoted here in perfectly the humour in which it was intended.

Andrew Bartlett

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BenHutchings — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:28:11 +0000

Lots of sites do not work with a single domain at this point; instead, they have "forest" of domains organized into a hierarchy.

That's not right. In Active Directory, a hierarchy of domains is called a 'tree'. A 'forest' contains multiple trees without a common root. This allows, for example, foo.com and bar.com to merge and integrate their ADs without renaming anything immediately.

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jake — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:10:08 +0000

> I am guessing that was said/meant in a humourous way?

well, I certainly *hope* so :)

that's definitely how I read it ... my guess is that Tridge noticed a certain grumpy editor in the audience and decided to tweak him a little ...

jake

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smoogen — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:06:55 +0000

Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell led off by saying that the last a lot of people had heard about the project's plans came from "an article in a disreputable web site."

I am guessing that was said/meant in a humourous way? [For those of us who have a hard time reading emotions.]