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Re: Samba for Cygwin
- To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>,"Joshua Jensen" <joshua at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Samba for Cygwin
- From: "Michael F. March" <march at indirect dot com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:15:50 -0700
- Cc: <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- References: <20010820154601.B1186@redhat.com> <3B816B6E.9070107@ece.gatech.edu>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
To: "Joshua Jensen" <joshua@redhat.com>
Cc: <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: Samba for Cygwin
> Joshua Jensen wrote:
>
> > I show all my students Cygwin, and they love it. Their number one
> > question, though, is "where is Samba for Cygwin?". Are there aspects of
> > Samba that are particularly problematic when porting to Cygwin? Are
> > there any plans for Samba on Cygwin?
>
>
> Umm...why?
>
> Samba allows linux/unix machines to export shares using the SMB/CIFS
> protocol.
>
> smbfs allows linux machines to mount shares from other machines (incl.
> windows) using SMB/CIFS.
>
> Windows ALREADY can export and mount shares using SMB/CIFS. These
> filesharing tools are *builtin* to windows 9x/Me and NT/2k. Why run
samba?
I happen to prefer the administration of Samba to traditional NT/2k
shares. That is also why I use Apache under Win2K instead of
IIS.
> That's like asking to port WINE to Cygwin (or port cygwin to WINE).
> It's a gee-whiz proof-of-concept, but has no practical value.
I believe there is a WINE port to Cygwin. Many of the Wine developers
wanted to be able to develope Wine under Windows.
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