From 97d022b8192a4d1df7079883465f576bdf734a8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Tridgell Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 01:00:21 +0000 Subject: yet another person asked me where the name Samba came from, so I put it in the history file. (This used to be commit 14927fa5da24aebcd015d07d5e3fb8b721aee829) --- docs/history | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/history') diff --git a/docs/history b/docs/history index dd9e83719f..7bcbe3564a 100644 --- a/docs/history +++ b/docs/history @@ -194,3 +194,25 @@ 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! +--------------------- -- cgit