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diff --git a/docs/archives/THANKS b/docs/archives/THANKS new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..789042f78e --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/archives/THANKS @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +===================================================================== +This file is for thanks to individuals or organisations who have +helped with the development of Samba, other than by coding or bug +reports. Their contributions are gratefully acknowledged. + +Please refer to the manual pages and change-log for a list of those +who have contributed in the form of patches, bug fixes or other +direct changes to the package. + +Contributions of any kind are welcomed. If you want to help then +please contact Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au, or via normal mail at + + Andrew Tridgell + 3 Ballow Crescent + Macgregor, A.C.T + 2615 Australia +===================================================================== + + +Lee Fisher (leefi@microsoft.com) +Charles Fox (cfox@microsoft.com) +Dan Perry (danp@exchnge.microsoft.com) +Paul Leach (paulle@microsoft.com) +Isaac Heizer (isaache@microsoft.com) + + These Microsoft people have been very helpful and supportive of + the development of Samba over some years. + + Lee very kindly supplied me with a copy of the X/Open SMB + specs. These have been invaluable in getting the details of the + implementation right. They will become even more important as we move + towards a Lanman 2.1 compliant server. Lee has provided very + useful advice on several aspects of the server. + Lee has also provided me with copies of Windows NTAS 3.1, Visual C + and a developers CD-ROM. Being able to run NT at home is a + great help. + + Charles has helped out in numerous ways with the provision of SMB + specifications and helpful advice. He has been following the + discussion of Samba on the mailing list and has stepped in + regularly to clarify points and to offer help. + + Dan has put me in touch with NT developers to help sort out bugs and + compatability issues. He has also supplied me with a copy of the + NT browsing spec, which will help a lot in the development of the + Samba browser code. + + Paul was responsible for Microsoft paying my flight to Seattle for the + first CIFS conference (see http://samba.org/cifs) and has been + generally helpful and cooperative as the SMB community moves towards + an Internet-ready specification. Isaac has regularly provided help on + the behaviour of NT networks. + +Bruce Perens (bruce@pixar.com) + + In appreciation of his effort on Samba we have sent Andrew copies of + various Pixar computer-graphics software products. Pixar is best known + for its "Renderman" product, the 3-D renderer used by ILM to make special + effects for "Terminator II" and "Jurassic Park". We won the first Oscar + given to a computer graphic animated feature for our short film "Tin Toy". + Our retail products "Typestry" and "Showplace", incorporate the same + renderer used on the films, and are available on Windows and the + Macintosh. + + + +Henry Lee (hyl@microplex.co) + + Henry sent me a M202 ethernet print server, making my little lan + one of the few home networks to have it's own print server! + + ``Microplex Systems Ltd. is a manufacturer of local and wide area + network communications equipment based in beautiful Vancouver, British + Columbia, Canada. Microplex's first products were synchronous wide + area network devices used in the mainframe communication networks. In + August 1991 Microplex introduced its first LAN product, the M200 print + server, the first high performance print server under US$1,000.'' + + +Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com) + + Tom sent me two 16 bit SMC ethernet cards to replace my ancient 8 + bit ones. The performance is much better! + + Software Metrics Inc. is a small custom software development and + consulting firm located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. We work + with a variety of environments (such as Windows, Windows NT and + Unix), tools and application areas, and can provide assistance for + development work ranging from a few days to to multiple man-year + projects. You can find more information at http://www.metrics.com/. + + +Steve Kennedy (steve@gbnet.net) + + Steve sent me 16Mb of ram so that I could install/test + NT3.5. I previous had only 8Mb ram in my test machine, which + wasn't enough to install a properly functioning copy of + NTAS. Being able to directly test NT3.5 allowed me to solve + several long standing NT<->Samba problems. Thanks Steve! + +John Terpstra (jht@aquasoft.com.au) + + Aquasoft are a specialist consulting company whose Samba-using + customers span the world. + + Aquasoft have been avid supporters of the Samba project. As a + token of appreciation Aquasoft have donated a 486DX2/66 PC with + a 540MB EIDE drive and 20MB RAM. + + John has helped to isolate quite a few little glitches over time + and has managed to implement some very interesting installations + of Samba. + + The donation of the new PC will make it possible to more fully + diagnose and observe the behaviour of Samba in conjuction with + other SMB protocol utilising systems. + + +Timothy F. Sipples (tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM) +Steve Withers (swithers@vnet.IBM.COM) + + Tim and Steve from IBM organised a copy of the OS/2 developers + connection CD set for me, and gave lots of help in getting + OS/2 Warp installed. I hope this will allow me to finally fix + up those annoying OS/2 related Samba bugs that I have been + receiving reports of. + +Keith Wilkins (wilki1k@nectech.co.uk) + + Keith from NEC in England very generously supplied a PC to + Luke Leighton to help with his nmbd development work. At the + same time Keith offered to help me with some new hardware, and + he sent me a pentium motherboard with 32MB of ram + onboard. This was very helpful as it allowed me to upgrade + my aging server to be a very powerful system. Thanks! + + diff --git a/docs/archives/history b/docs/archives/history new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..7bcbe3564a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/archives/history @@ -0,0 +1,218 @@ +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 +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 +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. + +eXcursion ran (at the time) only with Dec's `Pathworks' network for +DOS. I had up till then been using PC-NFS to connect to our local sun +workstations, and was reasonably happy with it. In order to run +pathworks I had to stop using PC-NFS and try using pathworks to mount +disk space. Unfortunately pathworks was only available for digital +workstations running VMS or Ultrix so I couldn't mount from the suns +anymore. + +I had access to a a decstation 3100 running Ultrix that I used to +administer, and I got the crazy notion that the protocol that +pathworks used to talk to ultrix couldn't be that hard, and maybe I +could work it out. I had never written a network program before, and +certainly didn't know what a socket was. + +In a few days, after looking at some example code for sockets, I +discovered it was pretty easy to write a program to "spy" on the file +sharing protocol. I wrote and installed this program (the sockspy.c +program supplied with this package) and captured everything that the +pathworks client said to the pathworks server. + +I then tried writing short C programs (using Turbo C under DOS) to do +simple file operations on the network drive (open, read, cd etc) and +looked at the packets that the server and client exchanged. From this +I worked out what some of the bytes in the packets meant, and started +to write my own program to do the same thing on a sun. + +After a day or so more I had my first successes and actually managed +to get a connection and to read a file. From there it was all +downhill, and a week later I was happily (if a little unreliably) +mounting disk space from a sun to my PC running pathworks. The server +code had a lot of `magic' values in it, which seemed to be always +present with the ultrix server. It was not till 2 years later that I +found out what all these values meant. + +Anyway, I thought other people might be interested in what I had done, +so I asked a few people at uni, and noone seemed much interested. I +also spoke to a person at Digital in Canberra (the person who had +organised a beta test of eXcursion) and asked if I could distribute +what I'd done, or was it illegal. It was then that I first heard the +word "netbios" when he told me that he thought it was all covered by a +spec of some sort (the netbios spec) and thus what I'd done was not +only legal, but silly. + +I found the netbios spec after asking around a bit (the RFC1001 and +RFC1002 specs) and found they looked nothing like what I'd written, so +I thought maybe the Digital person was mistaken. I didn't realise RFCs +referred to the name negotiation and packet encapsulation over TCP/IP, +and what I'd written was really a SMB implementation. + +Anyway, he encouraged me to release it so I put out "Server 0.1" in +January 1992. I got quite a good response from people wanting to use +pathworks with non-digital unix workstations, and I soon fixed a few +bugs, and released "Server 0.5" closely followed by "Server 1.0". All +three releases came out within about a month of each other. + +At this point I got an X Terminal on my desk, and I no longer needed eXcursion +and I prompty forgot about the whole project, apart from a few people +who e-mailed me occasionally about it. + +Nearly two years then passed with just occasional e-mails asking about +new versions and bugs. I even added a note to the ftp site asking for +a volunteer to take over the code as I no longer used it. No one +volunteered. + +During this time I did hear from a couple of people who said it should +be possible to use my code with Lanmanager, but I never got any +definite confirmation. + +One e-mail I got about the code did, however, make an impression. It +was from Dan Shearer at the university of South Australia, and he said +this: + + + I heard a hint about a free Pathworks server for Unix in the + Net channel of the Linux list. After quite a bit of chasing + (and lots of interested followups from other Linux people) I + got hold of a release news article from you, posted in Jan 92, + from someone in the UK. + + Can you tell me what the latest status is? I think you might + suddenly find a whole lot of interested hackers in the Linux + world at least, which is a place where things tend to happen + fast (and even some reliable code gets written, BION!) + +I asked him what Linux was, and he told me it was a free Unix for PCs. +This was in November 1992 and a few months later I was a Linux +convert! I still didn't need a pathworks server though, so I didn't do +the port, but I think Dan did. + +At about this time I got an e-mail from Digital, from a person working +on the Alpha software distribution. He asked if I would mind if they +included my server with the "contributed" cd-rom. This was a bit of a +shock to me as I never expected Dec to ask me if they could use my +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 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. + +At this time a person from our computer center offered me a couple of +cheap ethernet cards (3c505s for $15 each) and coincidentially someone +announced on one of the Linux channels that he had written a 3c505 +driver for Linux. I bought the cards, hacked the driver a little and +setup a home network between my wifes PC and my Linux box. I then +needed some way to connect the two, and I didn't own PC-NFS at home, +so I thought maybe my server could be useful. On the newsgroup among +the discussions of my server someone had mentioned that there was a +free client that might work with my server that Microsoft had put up +for ftp. I downloaded it and found to my surprise that it worked first +time with my `pathworks' server! + +Well, I then did a bit of hacking, asked around a bit and found (I +think from Dan) that the spec I needed was for the "SMB" protocol, and +that it was available via ftp. I grabbed it and started removing all +those ugly constants from the code, now that all was explained. + +On December 1st 1993 I announced the start of the "Netbios for Unix" +project, seeding the mailing list with all the people who had e-mailed +me over the years asking about the server. + +About 35 versions (and two months) later I wrote a short history of +the project, which you have just read. There are now over a hundred +people on the mailing list, and lots of people report that they use +the code and like it. In a few days I will be announcing the release +of version 1.6 to some of the more popular (and relevant) newsgroups. + + +Andrew Tridgell +6th February 1994 + +--------------------- + +It is now May 1995 and there are about 1400 people on the mailing +list. I got downloads from the main Samba ftp site from around 5000 +unique hosts in a two month period. There are several mirror +sites as well. The current version number is 1.9.13. + +--------------------- + + +--------------------- +It's now March 1996 and version 1.9.16alpha1 has just been +released. There have been lots of changes recently with master browser +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! +--------------------- |