Hi There, Do any of the latest versions of Samba interoperate with WinFS found in Microsoft future OS called Longhorn ? Thanks Chris Kordish Staff Engineer - Sun Microsystems Competitive Strategy Group - CTO Office 781-442-2784 NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 05:50:01PM -0500, Chris Kordish wrote:> Hi There, > > Do any of the latest versions of Samba > interoperate with WinFS found in Microsoft future OS > called Longhorn ? > > Thanks > > Chris Kordish > Staff Engineer - Sun Microsystems > Competitive Strategy Group - CTO Office > 781-442-2784Right now we don't know. WinFS is a layer over an existing filesystem (NTFS) and the extra SQL-like query features are only described in API docs from Microsoft MSDN. How this is achieved we don't know without getting a Longhorn CD installing it and checking out how this stuff might be done over the network. Maybe it's done via CIFS extensions, maybe via new RPC pipes - right now we don't know as we don't have a Longhorn CD. I would have thought that an engineer in Sun's "Competitive Strategy Group" would be in a better position to answer questions like this than the Samba Team. Of course if you'd like to get us a Longhorn CD and donate a machine for us to do these tests we'd be happy to investigate for you :-). Jeremy.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Kordish wrote: | | Do any of the latest versions of Samba | interoperate with WinFS found in Microsoft future OS | called Longhorn ? My understanding of WinFS is that it will be a new protocol with a new client network redirector. I'm basing this on information in the trade rags, not on developer releases. So asking about compatibility in this regards doesn't really hold a lot of meaning IMO. - -- cheers, jerry ~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com ~ SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org ~ GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc ~ "If we're adding to the noise, turn off this song" --Switchfoot (2003) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAFvJqIR7qMdg1EfYRAnmyAKCaAeIHt5n58CQbkxz6Wdf+7WHa4wCfR+Ob 5J6M/a94WLVoH49PvFFzXuc=kTX0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----