From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932148AbVHXDle (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:41:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932207AbVHXDle (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:41:34 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-02.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.41]:7330 "EHLO ms-smtp-02-eri0.texas.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932148AbVHXDld (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:41:33 -0400 Message-ID: <430BEBEA.60704@austin.rr.com> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 22:39:22 -0500 From: Steve French User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird (X11/20050322) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jerry@samba.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, raven@themaw.net Subject: Re: New maintainer needed for the Linux smb filesystem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org OK - good progress on filling the requirement for Windows ME/9x support which seems to be the most common reason for still needing smbfs based on various email responses on this thread (if we can get this work finished up fast, it will avoid some double maintainence). CIFS (in the cifs.git tree) can now handle not just mounts to Windows ME (and probably Windows 9x), but readdir and enough of lookup. Finishing up the remainder should go fast (OpenX instead of NTCreateX is the main piece left). Of course finding Windows 95, Windows 98, and OS/2 servers is a little harder than it sounds...although scripting a subset of the functional tests that should work should be pretty easy. I will also put a version of the source that will compile at least as far back as 2.6.9 up on the project page within a few days.