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Samba: EC Ruling Made Microsoft Talk Again
News Speaking at the University of Melbourne for the 2008 linux.conf.au, Samba author Andrew Tridgell expressed his satisfaction at finally being able to communicate with Microsoft engineers again after the European Commission decision to enforce an...
[March 12, 2008, 13:37]
Samba 'pleased' With Microsoft Co-operation
News Microsoft and the developers of the open-source Samba protocol are co-operating much more effectively since a landmark settlement late last year, according to the software's original developer. In December, Microsoft agreed to make documentation...
[January 31, 2008, 7:45]
SAMBA, Microsoft And The Real Issue
Blog Programs like Linux, Apache and SAMBA go through a fairly stringent peer-review process that may or may not be going on in Microsoft. SAMBA compatibility for Microsoft's OS seems to finally gotten through to the idiots' brains in MS's legal...
[December 29, 2007, 15:59]
Samba Leader Quits Novell Over Microsoft Deal
News Samba is software that lets Linux servers share files on Windows networks. Novell spokesman Bruce Lowry declined to comment on Allison's views, but said the company still employs two Samba programmers.
[December 22, 2006, 7:40]
Samba 4 Enters Public Testing
News A next-generation test version of the open source Samba file-sharing software has been made available, with features emulating Microsoft's Active Directory ID management software. The Samba suite is an implementation of Microsoft's SMB/CIFS...
[January 26, 2006, 9:50]
Samba Patch Fixes DoS Flaw
News The Samba Team released on Tuesday a patch to fix two flaws that could result in disruptions for networks using the widely installed Unix and Linux software. The two relatively minor flaws could crash or make unresponsive systems running version 3...
[September 15, 2004, 9:55]
Samba Will Move To GPLv3
News The new version 3 of the General Public License got a major endorsement on Monday from the project leaders of Samba, widely used open-source software for networked file sharing and printing. After internal consideration in the Samba Team, we have...
[July 10, 2007, 9:03]
Samba Marks Novell's Card Over Microsoft Deal
Blog Today, the Samba developers have released an open letter to Novell that makes their misgivings plain. Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken by Novell on November 2nd.
[November 12, 2006, 19:43]
Samba And Microsoft Strike Interoperability Deal
News Open-source software project Samba has signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive protocol documentation for the software giant's Windows workgroup server products. The non-disclosure agreement was brokered on behalf of Samba by the Protocol...
[December 21, 2007, 16:01]
Samba Leader Hired By Novell
News Novell has hired Jeremy Allison, one of the core programmers behind a widely used open source project called Samba. Samba is used to emulate Microsoft file-sharing technology, letting a server running Linux or Unix take the place of a Windows machine.
[April 28, 2005, 9:30]
Samba 4 Moves Closer To Production
News A second test version of the next generation of Samba has been released to the public, with numerous bug fixes and improvements included. Samba is open source software that lets Windows files and printers be shared by Unix and Linux systems.
[March 24, 2006, 9:35]
Samba Flaw Opens Up Root Access Attack
News The SuSE Security Audit Team has reported that a vulnerability in the Samba suite -- which provides SMB-based file and printer sharing on many Linux and Unix systems -- can open up a system to a remote attack resulting in complete compromise of...
[April 7, 2003, 9:49]
Microsoft's Antitrust Offering 'blocks Samba'
Talkback Microsoft sues the developers of Samba on their next release, saying "Prove you didn't see our specs". If THAT doesn't work, they'll work with a 'trojan developer' that has seen the specs, and get Samba yanked (with full press coverage) the moment...
[June 9, 2005, 20:21]
Microsoft Steps On Samba's Toes
News HP has also translated Samba and supports the software as a way to update its decades-old HP 3000 server line. SGI offers and supports Samba for its Origin line of Unix servers. And Quantum, which employs Samba founder Andrew Tridgell, uses Samba...
[May 10, 2002, 12:04]
A Multitude Of New Features In Samba 4 Will Simplify Life For Network Administrators
White Papers A multitude of newly integrated capabilities will make working with Samba 4 in a CIFS Active Directory context a much easier and more complete experience than it has been before. Samba has become a de facto Microsoft network compatibility tool.
[May 20, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft's Antitrust Offering 'blocks Samba'
News The European branch of the Free Software Foundation (FSFE) has accused Microsoft of freezing out Samba, the open source work group server operating system, in its final attempt to comply with last year's European antitrust ruling.
[June 8, 2005, 15:15]
Microsoft's EU Proposal Is Monstrous, Says Samba
Talkback If SAMBA or ZDNet tell us which parties in the EC and European Parliament to petition then we can start a letter wriitng campaign going. Letters will be better than email which could be seen as spam.
[February 4, 2005, 20:13]
Deploying Samba On IBM EServer BladeCenter
White Papers This paper describes how to set up and configure Linux and Samba on the IBM eServer BladeCenter and provides some pointers on managing the installation. As data centers have grown with the proliferation of Intel-based servers over recent years, it...
[September 24, 2004, 0:00]
Microsoft's EU Proposal Is Monstrous, Says Samba
Talkback The problem with Samba is that it is about 2.5 times faster than the MS implementation and that is simply too much for MS.
[February 5, 2005, 5:51]
Microsoft's EU Proposal Is Monstrous, Says Samba
Talkback Read more about Samba here: http://www.groklaw.net/ article.php? story=
[February 7, 2005, 9:14]
