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author | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 1998-10-29 01:00:21 +0000 |
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committer | Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org> | 1998-10-29 01:00:21 +0000 |
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yet another person asked me where the name Samba came from, so I put
it in the history file.
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diff --git a/docs/history b/docs/history index dd9e83719ff..7bcbe3564ad 100644 --- a/docs/history +++ b/docs/history @@ -194,3 +194,25 @@ Samba Team ps: The bugs are ours, so please report any you find. --------------------- + +--------------------- +It's now October 1998. We just got back from the 3rd CIFS conference +in SanJose. The Samba Team was the biggest contingent there. + +Samba 2.0 should be shipping in the next few weeks with much better +domain controller support, GUI configuration, a new user space SMB +filesystem and lots of other neat stuff. I've also noticed that a +search of job ads in DejaNews turned up 3900 that mention Samba. Looks +like we've created a small industry. + +I've been asked again where the name Samba came from. I might as well +put it down here for everyone to read. The code in Samba was first +called just "server", it then got renamed "smbserver" when I +discovered that the protocol is called SMB. Then in April 1994 I got +an email from Syntax, the makers of "TotalNet advanced Server", a +commercial SMB server. They told me that they had a trademark on the +name SMBserver and I would have to change the name. I ran an egrep for +words containing S, M, and B on /usr/dict/words and the name Samba +looked like the best choice. Strangely enough when I repeat that now I +notice that Samba isn't in /usr/dict/words on my system anymore! +--------------------- |