Samba, Microsoft cooperate on new set of SMB/CIFS docs?
Summary: One Samba contributor is working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS documentation.A recent post on the Samba team blog indicates that code contributor Chris Hertel and his Ubiqx consulting company are working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS protocol documentation.
One Samba contributor is working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS documentation.
A recent post on the Samba team blog indicates that code contributor Chris Hertel and his Ubiqx consulting company are working with Microsoft on a new set of SMB/CIFS protocol documentation.
Samba is a longstanding open source project that provides code to allow interoperability between Linux/Unix servers and Windows-based clients.
The protocols will be published as part of Microsoft's MCPP/WSPP set, the blog said.
"This is the first Microsoft-sponsored SMB/CIFS documentation to be made available without restrictions since the 1997 IETF draft specifications," the Samba team blog said. "The first new document, [MS-CIFS], covers the SMB protocol as implemented in Windows NT. It is almost 500 pages at present, and is just entering the review and markup stage. It should be available in a few months."
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Sweet...
RE: Samba, Microsoft cooperate on new set of SMB/CIFS docs?
I agree...
Btw, what actions of what members?
The problem is that Microsoft, themselves, do not know how SMB/CIFS works.
hairball. Then, you have applications written to
the very specific way that CIFS works, even though
it is not correct according to the documentation.
This is why Chris has source code access...
any code for Samba until a year after he has lost
source code access (although I don't think even
his memory is that good :-).
Jeremy.
RE: Samba, Microsoft cooperate on new set of SMB/CIFS docs?
Ah, Loverock, you made me laugh...
Good thing you're also just a Microsoft contractor
:-). But shills don't get paid much, do they.
Hard work too, hanging out here all day posting
pro-Microsoft messages to any story (unless
Loverock is a group of people posting under the
same account, which I've suspected in the past
:-). Maybe you should learn Samba - I'm sure you
could get a better paying job than being a lowly
cog in one of Microsoft's "Image management
Teams" :-) :-).
Jeremy.
Thats just crazy...
RE: Samba, Microsoft cooperate on new set of SMB/CIFS docs?
RE: Samba, Microsoft cooperate on new set of SMB/CIFS docs?
And, this points to the problem that MS does not even know how their own
Pretty funny.
Not true, a little unfair.
cases. Microsoft coders are working on code, so it
makes sense to hire an outside contractor to do
this work.
Jeremy.
But it does beg the question...
I'm guessing you know, or know someone who does, what with the EC extravaganza over it all.
Not enough of it :-).
here:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=22078
for details :-).
Jeremy.
Tread carefully ...
"If you can't beat them, join them." MS may not exactly be joining, more like putting their foot in.