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This file is for thanks to individuals or organisations who have
helped with the development of Samba, other than by coding or bug
reports. Their contributions are gratefully acknowledged.
Please refer to the manual pages and change-log for a list of those
who have contributed in the form of patches, bug fixes or other
direct changes to the package.
Contributions of any kind are welcomed. If you want to help then
please contact Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au, or via normal mail at
Andrew Tridgell
3 Ballow Crescent
Macgregor, A.C.T
2615 Australia
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Lee Fisher (leefi@microsoft.com)
Charles Fox (cfox@microsoft.com)
Dan Perry (danp@exchnge.microsoft.com)
Paul Leach (paulle@microsoft.com)
Isaac Heizer (isaache@microsoft.com)
These Microsoft people have been very helpful and supportive of
the development of Samba over some years.
Lee very kindly supplied me with a copy of the X/Open SMB
specs. These have been invaluable in getting the details of the
implementation right. They will become even more important as we move
towards a Lanman 2.1 compliant server. Lee has provided very
useful advice on several aspects of the server.
Lee has also provided me with copies of Windows NTAS 3.1, Visual C
and a developers CD-ROM. Being able to run NT at home is a
great help.
Charles has helped out in numerous ways with the provision of SMB
specifications and helpful advice. He has been following the
discussion of Samba on the mailing list and has stepped in
regularly to clarify points and to offer help.
Dan has put me in touch with NT developers to help sort out bugs and
compatability issues. He has also supplied me with a copy of the
NT browsing spec, which will help a lot in the development of the
Samba browser code.
Paul was responsible for Microsoft paying my flight to Seattle for the
first CIFS conference (see http://samba.org/cifs) and has been
generally helpful and cooperative as the SMB community moves towards
an Internet-ready specification. Isaac has regularly provided help on
the behaviour of NT networks.
Bruce Perens (bruce@pixar.com)
In appreciation of his effort on Samba we have sent Andrew copies of
various Pixar computer-graphics software products. Pixar is best known
for its "Renderman" product, the 3-D renderer used by ILM to make special
effects for "Terminator II" and "Jurassic Park". We won the first Oscar
given to a computer graphic animated feature for our short film "Tin Toy".
Our retail products "Typestry" and "Showplace", incorporate the same
renderer used on the films, and are available on Windows and the
Macintosh.
Henry Lee (hyl@microplex.co)
Henry sent me a M202 ethernet print server, making my little lan
one of the few home networks to have it's own print server!
``Microplex Systems Ltd. is a manufacturer of local and wide area
network communications equipment based in beautiful Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada. Microplex's first products were synchronous wide
area network devices used in the mainframe communication networks. In
August 1991 Microplex introduced its first LAN product, the M200 print
server, the first high performance print server under US$1,000.''
Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com)
Tom sent me two 16 bit SMC ethernet cards to replace my ancient 8
bit ones. The performance is much better!
Software Metrics Inc. is a small custom software development and
consulting firm located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. We work
with a variety of environments (such as Windows, Windows NT and
Unix), tools and application areas, and can provide assistance for
development work ranging from a few days to to multiple man-year
projects. You can find more information at http://www.metrics.com/.
Steve Kennedy (steve@gbnet.net)
Steve sent me 16Mb of ram so that I could install/test
NT3.5. I previous had only 8Mb ram in my test machine, which
wasn't enough to install a properly functioning copy of
NTAS. Being able to directly test NT3.5 allowed me to solve
several long standing NT<->Samba problems. Thanks Steve!
John Terpstra (jht@aquasoft.com.au)
Aquasoft are a specialist consulting company whose Samba-using
customers span the world.
Aquasoft have been avid supporters of the Samba project. As a
token of appreciation Aquasoft have donated a 486DX2/66 PC with
a 540MB EIDE drive and 20MB RAM.
John has helped to isolate quite a few little glitches over time
and has managed to implement some very interesting installations
of Samba.
The donation of the new PC will make it possible to more fully
diagnose and observe the behaviour of Samba in conjuction with
other SMB protocol utilising systems.
Timothy F. Sipples (tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM)
Steve Withers (swithers@vnet.IBM.COM)
Tim and Steve from IBM organised a copy of the OS/2 developers
connection CD set for me, and gave lots of help in getting
OS/2 Warp installed. I hope this will allow me to finally fix
up those annoying OS/2 related Samba bugs that I have been
receiving reports of.
Keith Wilkins (wilki1k@nectech.co.uk)
Keith from NEC in England very generously supplied a PC to
Luke Leighton to help with his nmbd development work. At the
same time Keith offered to help me with some new hardware, and
he sent me a pentium motherboard with 32MB of ram
onboard. This was very helpful as it allowed me to upgrade
my aging server to be a very powerful system. Thanks!