Re: Hurd Advocacy?

[nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller)]

Patrick Strasser <past@sbox.tugraz.at> writes:

> I was thinking about a SMB/CIFS translator for quite a while. Samba
> 3.0 seems to have new libraries that reduce glue code to a minimum.
> The translator could present something like a "network neighbourhood".
> This could be set up in a single line and demonstrate capabilities,
> aside from being just great use.

That would be a nice excellent example. I don't use samba much, but
last time I installed smbfs om linux, the documentation said that the
samba developers considered smbfs an ugly and unsupported hack. An smb
translator could probably avoid the problems they saw in smbfs.

Regards,
/Niels