RE: Samba (was: OS-X vs. Windows) -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: RE: Samba (was: OS-X vs. Windows)
From: "jt" <jt@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 16:21:20 -0500
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Simon,

You've been awful quiet lately.  I was curious on your views (assuming Samba
can be made to run in PASE):

Port Samba as GPL'd software?
Rebuild using MI/HLL?
Possibly better than Samba/PASE?
Timeframe/guesstimate?
Any money in this?

jt

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Simon Coulter
| Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 10:15 PM
|
| Perhaps an AS/400 port of Samba would be the go?  I know it would
| suffer in
| performance being implemented above the MI but surely it couldn't be any
| slower than NetServer itself?  And if it supported any SMB client
| then that
| may mitigate the performance aspect.  Who's interested?
|

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