Originally Posted by
cattletruck
Well done Pelikal!
Mike, did you go to the ANU?
Nope, never even been to Oz. I got hold of Samba in 1995 as we looked at a massive rollout of Windows 95 PCs (60,000 in '95) to replace Apple Macs at Nortel. At the time, we were known for our 'generic fileservers' (as we used Sun servers with PC-NFS and Apple software to create an interoperable multiplatform/multiprotocol server), and I knew that PC-NFS was clunky, memory-hungry and slow. So we looked at Samba (which was relatively new at the time), and soon found out that the browsemastering code wasn't designed properly for multi-subnet use. Luckily, the guy who wrote the original Samba browsemastering code was only half an hour away on the train, and i'd done loads of work in the WinNT arena at that time to define browsemastering, so we spent company expenses to bring him down on a weekend and 3 of us brainstormed the way to fix that specific issue at the Nortel labs in Harlow...which made it's way into all subsequent releases from there on.
Shame Windows95's browse kernel wasn't big enough for our browse lists after all that, but hey.