jra_samba
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Comment · 1 month ago
I didn't know you tried at Sun. Obviously I was a big XAD fan :-).
Comment · 1 month ago
Snowden did not take refuge in Russia. He was trapped there when his passport was cancelled by the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden_asylum_in_Russi...
Comment · 7 months ago
Look into talloc, used inside Samba (and other FLOSS projects like sssd). Exactly this.
Comment · 8 months ago
Tests. All changes must have tests. If they're generating the code, they can generate the tests too.
Comment · 9 months ago
Fantastic summary of the early days by tridge !
Comment · 1 year ago
Over 20+ years in the design and making. Amazing to see it finally rolled out in production ! NFS shuffles one step closer to the grave :-).
Comment · 1 year ago
I had 4 SONOS connect devices (S1 app only) doing exactly this. I recently (last month) replaced them all with BlueSound node nano devices. They do exactly what you require - point it at the SMB server and away they go.
Bonus is they do it over SMB2 allowing me to switch off SMB1 which I'd previously had to keep running for the SONOS devices.
The SONOS connects are going to goodwill.
Comment · 2 years ago
The Samba project has secured significant funding (€688,800.00) from the German
Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) to advance the project. The investment was
successfully applied for by SerNet. Over the next 18 months, Samba developers
from SerNet will tackle 17 key development sub-projects aimed at enhancing
Samba’s security, scalability, and functionality.
Comment · 2 years ago
Cracks in the Ice: Why a 'frozen' distribution Linux kernel isn't the safest choice for security:
https://ciq.com/blog/why-a-frozen-linux-kernel-isnt-the-safe...
This is an executive summary of research that my colleagues Ronnie Sahlberg and Jonathan Maple did, published as a whitepaper with all the numeric details here:
Comment · 2 years ago
Amen to this. I recall the original Western Digital WD TV Media Player.
https://www.cnet.com/reviews/western-digital-wd-tv-media-pla...
Used to attach to a local NAS. Swiftly knee-caped to do "streaming only" and thus became utterly dependent on third-party services.
I'd recommend the OSMC Vero as the only good replacement for it:
Comment · 2 years ago
Samba doesn't use the passwords or users in /etc/passwd directly. You have to map any SMB users into /etc/passwd users in Sambas database. Without that mapping they don't exist for Samba.
Comment · 2 years ago
My recollection of that time (I was at SGI when Belluzzo was there).
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremyallison_wither-google-f...