samba - Apr 2012 - Thank-you to Samba developers

Here's a short quote from a work-related email I sent earlier today,
announcing AD authentication from a linux VM. It expresses my awe at the
folks who write and maintain Samba, and it's long overdue from me:

It?s been 3 or 4 years since I configured Samba; it?s always a challenge
for me, mainly due to my poor understanding of MSoft networking. Then when
it works, I offer a silent prayer for those crazy Australians who
originated it. The pain they must have endured in getting it to work
boggles my mind. In that respect it may be the most impressive open-source
project out there, and they haven?t slowed-down in the least.

You folks deserve every accolade......Nick Geo

On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 15:52 -0500, nicholas geovanis
wrote:
> Here's a short quote from a work-related email I sent earlier today,
> announcing AD authentication from a linux VM. It expresses my awe at the
> folks who write and maintain Samba, and it's long overdue from me:
> It?s been 3 or 4 years since I configured Samba; it?s always a challenge
> for me, mainly due to my poor understanding of MSoft networking. 
+1  Samba I think often gets a bum wrap for 'complexity' by virtue of
people just not understanding how MSoft intends it to work.
> Then when it works,
It is crazy amazing how well it works out-of-the-box.
> I offer a silent prayer for those crazy Australians who
> originated it. The pain they must have endured in getting it to work
> boggles my mind. In that respect it may be the most impressive open-source
> project out there, and they haven?t slowed-down in the least.
+1

BTW, they accept donations <http://www.samba.org/samba/donations.html>

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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA