Archive for 'Samba'
Can you safely avoid Microsoft patents in open-source development?
Thanks to the European Union’s courts, Microsoft was forced to open up its APIs and protocols for its MCPP (Microsoft Communications Protocol Program) and WSPP (Workgroup Server Protocol Program). According to Keith Hageman, an MSDN moderator, “The MCPP package content details Windows Clients to Windows Server protocols for all features. The WSPP package content details [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2008 under Development, Legal, Microsoft, Network, Open Source, Samba, Windows.
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Getting Vista to work with Samba
I was tinkering with my Vista system the other day, when I found it wouldn’t connect with a pair of NAS (Network Attached Storage) drives. I was not a happy camper.
The drives, a pair of Seagate 400GB USB2.0 External Hard Drives, were connected to my Fast Ethernet network by a Linksys NSLU2, aka Slug, network [...]
Posted: December 15th, 2006 under Linux, Network, Operating System, Samba, Windows.
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Samba 2.0: A License To Kill NT?
Who needs an NT license? Not us! We tap into Windows’ file and print service by running The Samba Group’s Samba 2.0.x [...]
Posted: March 21st, 1999 under Linux, Network, Operating System, Samba, Windows.
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Linux Up Close: Time To Switch
This story was first published on January 24th, 1999 in Smart Reseller. It was the first story with objective proof that Samba and Linux were superior to Microsoft’s then current server operating system, Windows NT. Eric Carr and I wrote the story and conducted the testing at what was then ZDLabs in Foster City, Calif.
Forget [...]
Posted: January 24th, 1999 under Internet, Intranet, Linux, Operating System, Samba, Server, Web Services, Windows.
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