jra_samba

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by jra_samba 6mo ago
Look into talloc, used inside Samba (and other FLOSS projects like sssd). Exactly this.
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by jra_samba 7mo ago
Tests. All changes must have tests. If they're generating the code, they can generate the tests too.
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by jra_samba 8mo ago
Fantastic summary of the early days by tridge !
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SMB3 Unix Extensions used in production(samba.plus)
2 points by jra_samba 1y ago|1 comments
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by jra_samba 1y 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 :-).
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by jra_samba 2y 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
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German Sovereign Tech Fund Funds Samba Project(samba.plus)
3 points by jra_samba 2y ago|1 comments
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by jra_samba 2y 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 w
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Are all Linux vendor kernels insecure? A new study says yes, but there's a fix(zdnet.com)
12 points by jra_samba 2y ago|1 comments
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by jra_samba 2y 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
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by jra_samba 2y 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"
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by jra_samba 2y 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.
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by jra_samba 2y ago
My recollection of that time (I was at SGI when Belluzzo was there). https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremyallison_wither-google-f...
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by jra_samba 3y ago
The FSF doesn't even enforce the license for its own projects, let alone any random GPL project. Please don't give people false ideas.
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by jra_samba 3y ago
No one in these days of cyber attacks should be shipping unknown third party dependencies. How could you fix unknown dependencies in case of severe CVE's in them ? Unknown third party dependencies are a sign of utter amateur incompeten
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by jra_samba 3y ago
My take on this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeremyallison_wither-google-f... Wither Google ? FYI. This is my recollection of events, but it's been twenty or so years now, so if my memory is fuzzy on the detail
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by jra_samba 3y ago
This is very true. As an exmaple, Ian Hickson's blog post explaining the real reason behind DRM was posted on Google+ and is now completely unavailable (at least I can't find the original text anywhere). Here is an open web page d
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by jra_samba 3y ago
I am a personal friend of Chris, and was with him through most of his tenure at Google (we both got laid off at the same time). When Chris said no (and it was rare), it was usually because people were thinking of themselves over the good of
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by jra_samba 3y ago
I used to "share" an office with Hixie at Google. Hixie used to store his board game collection in the office we nominally "shared", but he himself very rarely visited. I liked that just fine (let's just say I'
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by jra_samba 3y ago
Yes, I think there's a better way (which would make Samba faster on your system :-). Can you ping me at jra@samba.org and I'll explain !
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by jra_samba 3y ago
Have you tried running Samba on top of cunoFS ? I'd be interested in performance data on that. For SMB3 access it might be better to add a Samba VFS vfs_cunoFS interface directly. You won't need to open source your client code, ju
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by jra_samba 3y ago
Google, Vic Gundotra I believe.
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by jra_samba 3y ago
Ah yes, the UK Police certainly won't use this to police speech they don't like: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-66462895
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RHEL Panel Discussion at Fossy 2023(sfconservancy.org)
3 points by jra_samba 3y ago|1 comments
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by jra_samba 3y ago
Discussion about Red Hat's recent source code availability changes.
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History Never Repeats. But Sometimes It Rhymes(ciq.com)
2 points by jra_samba 3y ago|1 comments
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by jra_samba 3y ago
My thoughts (published by CIQ on their blog page) on the recent Red Hat changes in source code availability.
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by jra_samba 3y ago
Oh contraire :-) .Alternate data streams are widely used by virus writers and spies using them to exfiltrate data from foreign (to the spy) government and corporate Windows IT systems. You think I jest ? Look up the leaked source code for t
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by jra_samba 4y ago
"Meredith Whittaker .. in 2018, she was an AI researcher at Google". That is factually incorrect.
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by jra_samba 4y ago
A Tesla is a Linux desktop, of course. :-).

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