Hi,
perhaps we should spend some roses to Susan
to be the first Lady of Samba !!!
Thx to both of you for hard coding times
Regards Robert
tridge@samba.org schrieb:> Samba4 reached an important milestone tonight, as I installed it for
> my wife to use as her file server for all of her important documents,
> email, the book she is working on etc.
>
> Those of you who have been around Samba development for a while will
> know that my wife tends to be the first test user of major new
> versions of Samba, and she volunteered again this time. Susan played a
> large part in the original motivation to develop Samba more than 12
> years ago, so she knows how useful it is to have a local test user.
>
> Reaching this stage does not mean that you should now go and install
> Samba4 on your production servers. Only a very keen (foolish?) person
> would do that. The code is quite incomplete, and is missing major
> features such as no netbios name server, no winbind, no admin tools,
> and very little documentation. So unless you are a keen C programmer
> then stay well clear for the moment.
>
> What this milestone means is that the code is now fairly robust, and
> that major applications (Eudora, OpenOffics.org, MS Word, Firefox etc)
> all work well and that I am quite confident of not losing data. Of
> course, I also have a very strict automated backup regime setup for my
> wife, so if I'm wrong about the robustness we can recover without me
> having to cook dinner for a week as penance.
>
> The code isn't available as a "alpha" quality release yet, as
there
> are just too many missing features, although I do plan on doing a
> "snapshot" release shortly (maybe within a week?).
>
> So far the only problem on my wifes machine is that Eudora startup is
> a bit slow. That is caused by Norton Anti-Virus on her WinXP box
> scanning all the dlls and the exe, along with the fact that Samba4
> does not yet have oplocks, so the client cannot cache the files for
> fast re-scanning. With norton disabled startup is fast.
>
> If you want to get involved in Samba4 development then see
> http://devel.samba.org/, checkout the code, and start reading. Having
> at look at the (incomplete) prog_guide.txt is a good idea.
>
> If you just want to see some slides on the design of Samba4, then
> there are some links to various talks I've given on my homepage at
> http://samba.org/~tridge/
>
> I'd like to thank everyone who has worked so hard over the last couple
> of years to get us this far. It's been a long haul, but the results
> are well worth it. Samba4 is a great basis for future Samba
> development.
>
> In particular I'd like to thank the members of the Samba Team who have
> put so much into the development of Samba4. It's been a great team
> effort, and a lot of fun.
>
> Now back to more coding ....
>
> Cheers, Tridge