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Does "non-POSIX backends" mean MS Windows?

Story: Samba Creator Andrew Tridgell Joins OSDLTotal Replies: 2
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AnonymousCoward

Jan 17, 2005
12:52 PM EST 		If so, this could be a fileserver-killer app. If administrators can run Samba as a service under Win2k3, then they can elide MS' painful per-seat connection licensing and still use all of their favourite native MS toys.

And then one day (maybe when a hypermegaultranasty LAN virus gets loose) someone will realise that you can get by without the OS, too.

BTW, Tridge wrote the core of Samba4 in one (long) day. I stand in complete awe of that level of coding ability.
PaulFerris

Jan 17, 2005
4:22 PM EST 		Does it really matter?

With the advent of CoLinux, you can do Samba right on "native" Windows, which begs this question (prior post to LXer):

http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/12712/

What do you think? :)

--FeriCyde
robT

Jan 18, 2005
4:05 AM EST 		I have never read the MS EULA (don't use MS products that I own), so I can't say whether or not connecting to a Win box using a 3rd party app would require a Win CAL, but if it doesn't I'm sure MS can easily re-write the EULA.

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