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diff --git a/docs/history b/docs/history index 83761e23b8..7bcbe3564a 100644 --- a/docs/history +++ b/docs/history @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@ -Note: This file is now quite out of date - but perhaps that's -appropriate? +Contributor: Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team +Date: June 27, 1997 +Satus: Always out of date! (Would not be the same without it!) - -========= +Subject: A bit of history and a bit of fun +============================================================================ This is a short history of this project. It's not supposed to be comprehensive, just enough so that new users can get a feel for where @@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ this project has come from and maybe where it's going to. The whole thing really started in December 1991. I was (and still am) a PhD student in the Computer Sciences Laboratory at the Australian -Netional University, in Canberra, Australia. We had just got a +National University, in Canberra, Australia. We had just got a beta copy of eXcursion from Digital, and I was testing it on my PC. At this stage I was a MS-DOS user, dabbling in windows. @@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ code! I wrote back saying it was OK, but never heard from him again. I don't know if it went on the cd-rom. Anyway, the next big event was in December 1993, when Dan again sent -me an e-mail saying my server had "raised it's ugly head" on +me an e-mail saying my server had "raised its ugly head" on comp.protocols.tcpip.ibmpc. I had a quick look on the group, and was surprised to see that there were people interested in this thing. @@ -163,3 +164,55 @@ support and the ability to do domain logons etc. Samba has also been ported to OS/2, the amiga and NetWare. There are now 3000 people on the samba mailing list. --------------------- + + +--------------------- +It's now June 1997 and samba-1.9.17 is due out soon. My how time passes! +Please refer to the WHATSNEW.txt for an update on new features. Just when +you think you understand what is happening the ground rules change - this +is a real world after all. Since the heady days of March 1996 there has +been a concerted effort within the SMB protocol using community to document +and standardize the protocols. The CIFS initiative has helped a long way +towards creating a better understood and more interoperable environment. +The Samba Team has grown in number and have been very active in the standards +formation and documentation process. + +The net effect has been that we have had to do a lot of work to bring Samba +into line with new features and capabilities in the SMB protocols. + +The past year has been a productive one with the following releases: + 1.9.16, 1.9.16p2, 1.9.16p6, 1.9.16p9, 1.9.16p10, 1.9.16p11 + +There are some who believe that 1.9.15p8 was the best release and others +who would not want to be without the latest. Whatever your perception we +hope that 1.9.17 will close the gap and convince you all that the long +wait and the rolling changes really were worth it. Here is functionality +and a level of code maturity that ..., well - you can be the judge! + +Happy SMB networking! +Samba Team + +ps: The bugs are ours, so please report any you find. +--------------------- + +--------------------- +It's now October 1998. We just got back from the 3rd CIFS conference +in SanJose. The Samba Team was the biggest contingent there. + +Samba 2.0 should be shipping in the next few weeks with much better +domain controller support, GUI configuration, a new user space SMB +filesystem and lots of other neat stuff. I've also noticed that a +search of job ads in DejaNews turned up 3900 that mention Samba. Looks +like we've created a small industry. + +I've been asked again where the name Samba came from. I might as well +put it down here for everyone to read. The code in Samba was first +called just "server", it then got renamed "smbserver" when I +discovered that the protocol is called SMB. Then in April 1994 I got +an email from Syntax, the makers of "TotalNet advanced Server", a +commercial SMB server. They told me that they had a trademark on the +name SMBserver and I would have to change the name. I ran an egrep for +words containing S, M, and B on /usr/dict/words and the name Samba +looked like the best choice. Strangely enough when I repeat that now I +notice that Samba isn't in /usr/dict/words on my system anymore! +--------------------- |