Re: [Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time?

2008-02-26 Thread Bernard Peek
Whit Blauvelt wrote: Jeremy, I think I can see the blind spot at play here: The signal genius of the core members of the Samba project is in being able to take a poorly-documented, haphazardly-designed interface - Microsoft's - and nonetheless make something that works with it. Samba's developer

Re: [Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time?

2008-02-18 Thread Robert Pollard
ed and serious discussion! - Original Message - From: "Jeremy Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Whit Blauvelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time? On Sun, Feb 17, 2

Re: [Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time

2008-02-17 Thread Douglas VanLeuven
Christian McHugh wrote: > Guido Lorenzutti wrote: >> Jeremy Allison wrote: >> >>> >>> If you have a specific issue, ask it. If you have a specific >>> bug, report it. You did none of those things. >>> >> >> Im not a developer, Im a sysadmin and I been using samba for a lot of >> years know.

Re: [Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time

2008-02-17 Thread Christian McHugh
Guido Lorenzutti wrote: Jeremy Allison wrote: If you have a specific issue, ask it. If you have a specific bug, report it. You did none of those things. Im not a developer, Im a sysadmin and I been using samba for a lot of years know. When I read the post, I wasn't going to answear, '

Re: [Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time

2008-02-17 Thread Guido Lorenzutti
Jeremy Allison wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 04:33:37PM -0500, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > >> Gee thanks, Jeremy, for a personal attack rather than addressing any of the >> specifics raised. >> > > You raised no specifics. All you posted was a general whine > "I can't make it work". Well poor

Re: [Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time?

2008-02-17 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:22:42PM -0500, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > Jeremy, > > I think I can see the blind spot at play here: The signal genius of the core > members of the Samba project is in being able to take a poorly-documented, > haphazardly-designed interface - Microsoft's - and nonetheless ma

[Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time?

2008-02-17 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Jeremy, I think I can see the blind spot at play here: The signal genius of the core members of the Samba project is in being able to take a poorly-documented, haphazardly-designed interface - Microsoft's - and nonetheless make something that works with it. Samba's developers, of all the open-sour

Re: [Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time

2008-02-17 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 04:33:37PM -0500, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > Gee thanks, Jeremy, for a personal attack rather than addressing any of the > specifics raised. You raised no specifics. All you posted was a general whine "I can't make it work". Well poor you. You obviously have no concept of the d

Re: [Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time

2008-02-17 Thread Tim Bates
Whit Blauvelt wrote: I'm looking for somerecognition that the Samba project may have gone astray in the decision to package winbind as part of the main package, given the many specific shortcomings No problems with doing that. I'm pretty sure some of the little tools, scripts and gadgets for ot

Re: [Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time

2008-02-17 Thread simo
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 16:33 -0500, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > My ethic has always been: If there's a rock in the path, I remove it so the > next person along doesn't trip over it. If something's clearly not > documented, or not performing according to common sense expectations and a > fair reading of

[Samba] Re: winbind - not ready for prime time

2008-02-17 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Gee thanks, Jeremy, for a personal attack rather than addressing any of the specifics raised. I'm not looking for a flame war. I'm looking for some recognition that the Samba project may have gone astray in the decision to package winbind as part of the main package, given the many specific shortco