Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem?

Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem?

[Adrian Bunk]

Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem in the Linux kernel?

Emails to the Email address urban@teststation.com of Urban Widmark that 
is listed in MAINTAINERS are bouncing.

Can anyone tell how to reach Urban and/or whether anyone is currently 
maintaining smbfs?

TIA
Adrian

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Re: Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem?

[tvrtko.ursulin]

On 03/08/2005 17:03:04 linux-kernel-owner wrote:

>Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem in the Linux kernel?

It probably won't help you much, but I had the same problem few months 
ago. There was a bug in smbfs which I tried to discuss with someone, and 
after failing to contact the maintainer, I sent the fix to Linus. I don't 
think even he managed to get a response from Urban or someone else. The 
fix went in so I stopped chasing it.

So it looks like smbfs is not maintained.

Re: Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 04:25, tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com wrote:
>On 03/08/2005 17:03:04 linux-kernel-owner wrote:
>>Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem in the Linux kernel?
>
>It probably won't help you much, but I had the same problem few
> months ago. There was a bug in smbfs which I tried to discuss with
> someone, and after failing to contact the maintainer, I sent the
> fix to Linus. I don't think even he managed to get a response from
> Urban or someone else. The fix went in so I stopped chasing it.
>
>So it looks like smbfs is not maintained.

I thought that originally was Andrew Tridgels output?

I'm having problems with it too, but only on a deb3.1 system.  I 
looked in Borders yesterday, but couldn't find a 'samba for dummies' 
or similar publication.

The question then is: Where might there be a decent publication 
describing samba and how to make it work?  Dead tree, pdf equally 
welcome here.

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Re: Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem?

[Martin Drab]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 04 August 2005 04:25, tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com wrote:
> >On 03/08/2005 17:03:04 linux-kernel-owner wrote:
> >>Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem in the Linux kernel?
> >
> >It probably won't help you much, but I had the same problem few
> > months ago. There was a bug in smbfs which I tried to discuss with
> > someone, and after failing to contact the maintainer, I sent the
> > fix to Linus. I don't think even he managed to get a response from
> > Urban or someone else. The fix went in so I stopped chasing it.
> >
> >So it looks like smbfs is not maintained.
> 
> I thought that originally was Andrew Tridgels output?
> 
> I'm having problems with it too, but only on a deb3.1 system.  I 
> looked in Borders yesterday, but couldn't find a 'samba for dummies' 
> or similar publication.
> 
> The question then is: Where might there be a decent publication 
> describing samba and how to make it work?  Dead tree, pdf equally 
> welcome here.

Have you tried <http://www.samba.org> ?

Martin

Re: Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem?

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 04 August 2005 11:17, Martin Drab wrote:
>On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 04 August 2005 04:25, tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com wrote:
>> >On 03/08/2005 17:03:04 linux-kernel-owner wrote:
>> >>Is anyone maintaining the smb filesystem in the Linux kernel?
>> >
>> >It probably won't help you much, but I had the same problem few
>> > months ago. There was a bug in smbfs which I tried to discuss
>> > with someone, and after failing to contact the maintainer, I
>> > sent the fix to Linus. I don't think even he managed to get a
>> > response from Urban or someone else. The fix went in so I
>> > stopped chasing it.
>> >
>> >So it looks like smbfs is not maintained.
>>
>> I thought that originally was Andrew Tridgels output?
>>
>> I'm having problems with it too, but only on a deb3.1 system.  I
>> looked in Borders yesterday, but couldn't find a 'samba for
>> dummies' or similar publication.
>>
>> The question then is: Where might there be a decent publication
>> describing samba and how to make it work?  Dead tree, pdf equally
>> welcome here.
>
>Have you tried <http://www.samba.org> ?
>
Duh!  I'll go quietly.

>Martin

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Cheers, Gene
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