On 2008/07/02 11:31 (GMT+0700) Rashid N. Achilov apparently typed: > Instead of trying to convince to "carry a heavy cargo of compatibility" with > dead and completely unusable operating systems and programs, ask to more jobs > to finish Samba 4 and expanding Samba 3 to be a FULL analog with WinXP. > Legacy servers should be updated. Legacy operating systems shuld be updated. > IMHO, there is nothing to reason to support legacy products.
You know not of which you speak. It's easy to say this when you know nothing about it. Native OS/2 networking cannot be updated, because it is proprietary and its proprietor IBM refuses to do so, having officially abandoned OS/2 over two years ago. Yet, OS/2 maintains the best available desktop environment for many users, and is still being sold, just not by IBM, or by the OS/2 name, and not by anyone in position to update its legacy networking. For an average OS/2 user, there simply is no acceptable replacement. The OS/2 user's only hope is for its current vendor to someday drop its legacy networking and replace it with samba. Until that happens, if it ever happens, OS/2 users need either smbfs, or the CIFS timestamp, blocker bugs whether acknowledged or not, fixed. The fact is, smbfs works well enough with OS/2, as long the kernel isn't too new to have retained smbfs support, and the distro hasn't dropped genuine smbmount. That's a lot more than can be said of cifs. -- "Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry." Ephesians 4:26 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba