samba - Aug 1997 - Properties of Samba server say "Windows NT server 4.2" ?

Hello all,

I recently noticed that when asking for the properties of a
samba server (i.e. right-click on name of Samba server in
network neighborood), Windows tells me that it is a

	Type: Windows NT 4.2 Server

It is nice to see that even Microsoft recognises that Samba has
an advance compared to NT4.0 :-), but how come ? Is it just
a harmless joke from the samba developers, or is it a bug ?


	Gert-Jan

PS1: keep up the good work guys, we're very happy with Samba!

PS2: I've seen this with 1.9.16p11, and it is still there with
     1.9.17alpha5, client being a Windows NT4 workstation.

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"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
 with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
    - Galileo Galilei

just wanting to go one better than microsoft - is that a crime?

On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Gert-Jan Vons wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I recently noticed that when asking for the properties of a
> samba server (i.e. right-click on name of Samba server in
> network neighborood), Windows tells me that it is a
> 
> 	Type: Windows NT 4.2 Server
> 
> It is nice to see that even Microsoft recognises that Samba has
> an advance compared to NT4.0 :-), but how come ? Is it just
> a harmless joke from the samba developers, or is it a bug ?
> 
> 
> 	Gert-Jan
> 
> PS1: keep up the good work guys, we're very happy with Samba!
> 
> PS2: I've seen this with 1.9.16p11, and it is still there with
>      1.9.17alpha5, client being a Windows NT4 workstation.
> 
> ---
> "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us
>  with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their
use."
>     - Galileo Galilei
> 
>

At 18:26 27-08-97 +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
 
 |just wanting to go one better than microsoft - is that a crime?

Only wondered to what extent it is only user info. Windows
might make use of it, and not all software is prepared to deal 
with more recent versions than it knows about.

 |> I recently noticed that when asking for the properties of a
 |> samba server (i.e. right-click on name of Samba server in
 |> network neighborood), Windows tells me that it is a
 |> 
 |> 	Type: Windows NT 4.2 Server

Windows knows about the filesystem type "Samba", so I wondered why
it doesn't say that the server type is "Samba" as well...

 
	Gert-Jan
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who
 cannot read them."