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2 This file is for thanks to individuals or organisations who have
3 helped with the development of Samba, other than by coding or bug
4 reports. Their contributions are gratefully acknowledged.
6 Please refer to the manual pages and change-log for a list of those
7 who have contributed in the form of patches, bug fixes or other
8 direct changes to the package.
10 Contributions of any kind are welcomed. If you want to help then
11 please contact Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au, or via normal mail at
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20 Lee Fisher (leefi@microsoft.com)
21 Charles Fox (cfox@microsoft.com)
22 Dan Perry (danp@exchnge.microsoft.com)
24 These Microsoft people have been very helpful and supportive of
25 the development of Samba.
27 Lee very kindly supplied me with a copy of the X/Open SMB
28 specs. These have been invaluable in getting the details of the
29 implementation right. They will become even more important as we move
30 towards a Lanman 2.1 compliant server. Lee has provided very
31 useful advice on several aspects of the server.
32 Lee has also provided me with copies of Windows NTAS 3.1, Visual C
33 and a developers CD-ROM. Being able to run NT at home is a
36 Charles has helped out in numerous ways with the provision of SMB
37 specifications and helpful advice. He has been following the
38 discussion of Samba on the mailing list and has stepped in
39 regularly to clarify points and to offer help.
41 Dan has put me in touch with NT developers to help sort out bugs and
42 compatability issues. He has also supplied me with a copy of the
43 NT browsing spec, which will help a lot in the development of the
47 Bruce Perens (bruce@pixar.com)
49 In appreciation of his effort on Samba we have sent Andrew copies of
50 various Pixar computer-graphics software products. Pixar is best known
51 for its "Renderman" product, the 3-D renderer used by ILM to make special
52 effects for "Terminator II" and "Jurassic Park". We won the first Oscar
53 given to a computer graphic animated feature for our short film "Tin Toy".
54 Our retail products "Typestry" and "Showplace", incorporate the same
55 renderer used on the films, and are available on Windows and the
60 Henry Lee (hyl@microplex.co)
62 Henry sent me a M202 ethernet print server, making my little lan
63 one of the few home networks to have it's own print server!
65 ``Microplex Systems Ltd. is a manufacturer of local and wide area
66 network communications equipment based in beautiful Vancouver, British
67 Columbia, Canada. Microplex's first products were synchronous wide
68 area network devices used in the mainframe communication networks. In
69 August 1991 Microplex introduced its first LAN product, the M200 print
70 server, the first high performance print server under US$1,000.''
73 Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com)
75 Tom sent me two 16 bit SMC ethernet cards to replace my ancient 8
76 bit ones. The performance is much better!
78 Software Metrics Inc. is a small custom software development and
79 consulting firm located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. We work
80 with a variety of environments (such as Windows, Windows NT and
81 Unix), tools and application areas, and can provide assistance for
82 development work ranging from a few days to to multiple man-year
83 projects. You can find more information at http://www.metrics.com/.
86 Steve Kennedy (steve@gbnet.net)
88 Steve sent me 16Mb of ram so that I could install/test
89 NT3.5. I previous had only 8Mb ram in my test machine, which
90 wasn't enough to install a properly functioning copy of
91 NTAS. Being able to directly test NT3.5 allowed me to solve
92 several long standing NT<->Samba problems. Thanks Steve!
94 John Terpstra (jht@aquasoft.com.au)
96 Aquasoft are a speciaist consulting company whose Samba using
97 customers span the world.
99 Aquasoft have been avid supporters of the Samba project. As a
100 token of appreciation Aquasoft have donated a 486DX2/66 PC with
101 a 540MB EIDE drive and 20MB RAM.
103 John has helped to isolate quite a few little glitches over time
104 and has managed to implement some very interesting installations
107 The donation of the new PC will make it possible to more fully
108 diagnose and observe the behaviour of Samba in conjuction with
109 other SMB protocol utilising systems.
112 Timothy F. Sipples (tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM)
113 Steve Withers (swithers@vnet.IBM.COM)
115 Tim and Steve from IBM organised a copy of the OS/2 developers
116 connection CD set for me, and gave lots of help in getting
117 OS/2 Warp installed. I hope this will allow me to finally fix
118 up those annoying OS/2 related Samba bugs that I have been
119 receiving reports of.