Samba team member Jeremy Allison finds an obscure but
convincing reference on the Hewlett Packard Web site. — lt
ed.
[ Thanks to Jeremy
Allison for this report. ]
See the Web page on HP’s new product, CIFS/9000:
http://www.unixsolutions.hp.com/products/cifs.html
Then click on the “Questions and Answers” link :
http://www.unixsolutions.hp.com/products/cifs_qa.html
You’ll find the quote :
“Q: Is the server side of CIFS/9000 based on Open Source
Samba?
A: Yes. HP is committed to submitting CIFS/9000 enhancements
back to the Open Source community.”
Hmmm. This is the first we’ve heard of this (rather good news
though, if it’s true :-). This is also the *only* mention of Samba
on the entire product site, even though it looks like the entire
server part of the product is based on Samba 🙂 :-).
It is intended to be shipped as part of every HPUX system from
March 2000 onwards.
More as I find out more…..
Regards,
Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.