From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 8 07:31:39 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id HAA14507 for current-outgoing; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 07:31:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id HAA14502 for ; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 07:31:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA17300; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 10:31:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 8 Dec 1996 10:31:23 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Michael Smith cc: Gary Roberts , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: samba In-Reply-To: <199612081038.VAA03667@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Please go back and read the mailing list archives for the meat of the > last N times this has come up. Searching for 'smbfs' is probably a > good place to start. Look particularly for Terry's detailed rants on > the topic. To quote from the motd on freefall: sd3 passed away at 7:05AM PST. RIP. A replacement drive will be ordered ASAP. Lots of stuff has died with it, expect chaos for a while. The mailing list archives are among the dead. :( I just hope some backups exist. > The linux smbfs is, in the tradition of Linux, a festering hack, and > this isn't exclusively the fault of the implementors. Alas, if you rate software on two scales: elegantly engineered solution to festering hack, and useless to useful, I'd hazzard a guess that if there is any correlation, it would be positive (associate the festering hacks with higher utility). Non-programmers don't care *how* the programmer implements something, so long as it works most of the time. Evidence? Microsoft products. I rest my case. -john