Problems with net use statement via sshd on cygwin

Randall R Schulz rrschulz@cris.com
Wed Apr 9 19:22:00 GMT 2003


Igor,

At 11:29 2003-04-09, you wrote:
>On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
> > Techinically and pick nits (or ears as it were) SMB is the protocol
> > (Server Message Block I believe) and Samba is the name of a set of
> > programs to implement that protocol on Unix (not Windows).
>
>Well, yeah, but people usually equate the two (erroneously, as it were).

If you'd written the first SMB server for Unix (no, not Samba), you 
wouldn't confuse them. I'm talking about an SMB server with full file 
and print sharing written by Locus Computing Corp. for AT&T in the mid 
Eighties. We even made extensions to the SMB protocol for remote 
printer sharing administration and remote execution on the Unix host.

To bad that software seems to have disappeared from the face of the 
Earth. It was just about the best project I ever worked on in the 
corporate world.


> > Hey we were just having fun with it anyway - right?
>
>Easy for you to say... *shudder* ;-)
>     Igor


Randall Schulz 


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