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Hello list,
I had a high-level question regarding the technical goals of the
samba4 project. In the past, my projects have included embedded
system projects that needed CIFS/SMB client/server functionality.
Sometimes these projects were embedded linux, and it wasn't too
difficult to get Samba 3.0.x running on these platforms. However,
when these embedded platforms used some other real-time operating
system (like VxWorks), the design of Samba 3.0.x and it's OS
assumptions made the task of porting Samba 3.0.x extremely difficult,
and was not attempted.
What I was hoping is that the design Samba4 was modularized and not
as monolithic as Samba3, and that the interfaces used by Samba4 were
not "hard-wired" to a Unix system API. I just pulled down the current
trunk of the samba4 tree and I'm just starting to look at it, but I
was hoping for a basic statement as to whether or not the list feels
like the portability of the samba4 codebase is much better than Samba3.
Thanks in advance for any responses!
Randy
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