Hi, Last Sunday I saw an email in the samba-technical mailing list from someone who complained that a certain feature of smbclient/smbtar did not work. Specifically, he had complained the week before that files larger than 4GB were not being handled properly when backed up from a Windows system. Herb Lewis worked on it and provided some patches. Then, on Sunday, he complained again that while the patches worked for getting files, but in putting a 4+GB file to a Windows system failed.
So, despite having other things to do and having a family etc, I spent time duplicating the problem, tracked the issues down and fixed it, and then tested that the files were transferred without corruption. Moving and comparing a 5GB file with a copy takes a while :-( Then I supplied the patches to the person who complained and made sure they were applied to two of the three branches of Samba that we care about, and would have applied it to the third branch if Jeremy hadn't beat me to it. However, I was staggered when several days went by and I received no feed back from the person who complained. Certainly no thankyou, but not even something to say that the patches worked or didn't. However, last night, within seconds of midnight, I got this from someone else. >Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 03:36:19 -0600 (CST) >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: samba profiles util > >hey guy, i just want to thank you for the profiles util in samba. >it saved my life. i had to modify a bunch of terminal server roamining >profiles because i had to move the servers from one domain to another. > >if you ever stop by in the dallas area, i would buy you a drink. So, while it is clear that there are assholes in the world, there are also those who make it all worth while. Sure, you could counter that I chose to work on the software, and should therefore be content with the opportunity to contribute, but in my view that is crap :-) Of course, we could also do with more people who contribute, as well. Regards ------ Richard Sharpe, www.richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at}richardsharpe{dot]com sharpe/at\ethereal?dot?com, sharpe\at/samba<dot>com