On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Daniel Johnson
<daniel.johnso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
>> On 03/21/2011 1:04 PM, Raymond Vetter wrote:
>>> there are only a very old samba version available on:
>>> http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/samba
>>
>> Unfortunately, Fink's samba hasn't had a declared maintainer for 6
>> years, which is why it's so old, and apparently most people must be
>> content enough to use the OS provided one.  Fink would of course welcome
>> an upgraded samba in the distribution.
>
> I looked at it once, but it's a very complicated beast to package. I just 
> don't see the need for it as Apple's is perfectly functional and nicely 
> integrated into the system.

Unofficial rumor is, not much longer:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/23/inside_mac_os_x_10_7_lion_server_apple_replaces_samba_for_windows_networking_services.html

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