On Saturday 27 April 2002 00:17, Anon. Coward wrote:
Winduhs natively does administrative communication via their SMB protocol (Server Message Block). This was 'borrowed' by them from an archaic DEC messaging system.
When Winduhs started communicating all over the place with SMB, one bright light remembered the old DEC protocol. He was able to fit this to *nix, back-engineer/tweak it to SMB and dubbed it Samba. Many of us thank you sir.
Not quite. First of all, the DEC Pathworks, that you're referring to, is newer than SMB by about 6 years, and in fact used the IBM/MS SMB protocol. Secondly, the engineer in fact set out to implement support for Pathworks. He didn't "remember the old DEC protocol", he set out to support a brand new type of network that used the older SMB protocol. Thirdly, his name was Andrew Tridgell. My info is from samba.org and http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch01_01.html where is your info from? Anders