No, but I did get an iPhone for my wife.....
best damn trade I EVER did! ;-) On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Patrick Salmon <[email protected]> wrote: > > Most remarkable is use the 'stable' in the same sentence as 'Samba'. Have > > long liked and used it - no question, it's a badly needed complement to > many > > networks, but in the 15 yrs since I first kicked its tires, 'stable' > would > > be the one word that pretty much never applies. > > It's an interesting question. As has been noted, Microsoft's own > docs on SMB were often incomplete or outright wrong. So the Samba > people would do what Microsoft said to do, and then that wouldn't work > with Windows. It became apparent that Microsoft didn't really > understand the Windows SMB code, either. Does that make Samba the > unstable element, or Windows? One generally has to put the onus on > Samba, since Samba's goal is to be compatible with Windows. Nobody > really cares why the file server doesn't work, they just want it to > work. So Samba can be "stable", in the sense of the developers are > confident in their code, but *not* be "stable", in the sense of > actually achieving the goal of working with Windows. > > "Are you still beating your wife?" ;-) > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
