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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)
23 Paul Leach (paulle@microsoft.com)
24 Isaac Heizer (isaache@microsoft.com)
26 These Microsoft people have been very helpful and supportive of
27 the development of Samba over some years.
29 Lee very kindly supplied me with a copy of the X/Open SMB
30 specs. These have been invaluable in getting the details of the
31 implementation right. They will become even more important as we move
32 towards a Lanman 2.1 compliant server. Lee has provided very
33 useful advice on several aspects of the server.
34 Lee has also provided me with copies of Windows NTAS 3.1, Visual C
35 and a developers CD-ROM. Being able to run NT at home is a
38 Charles has helped out in numerous ways with the provision of SMB
39 specifications and helpful advice. He has been following the
40 discussion of Samba on the mailing list and has stepped in
41 regularly to clarify points and to offer help.
43 Dan has put me in touch with NT developers to help sort out bugs and
44 compatability issues. He has also supplied me with a copy of the
45 NT browsing spec, which will help a lot in the development of the
48 Paul was responsible for Microsoft paying my flight to Seattle for the
49 first CIFS conference (see http://samba.org/cifs) and has been
50 generally helpful and cooperative as the SMB community moves towards
51 an Internet-ready specification. Isaac has regularly provided help on
52 the behaviour of NT networks.
54 Bruce Perens (bruce@pixar.com)
56 In appreciation of his effort on Samba we have sent Andrew copies of
57 various Pixar computer-graphics software products. Pixar is best known
58 for its "Renderman" product, the 3-D renderer used by ILM to make special
59 effects for "Terminator II" and "Jurassic Park". We won the first Oscar
60 given to a computer graphic animated feature for our short film "Tin Toy".
61 Our retail products "Typestry" and "Showplace", incorporate the same
62 renderer used on the films, and are available on Windows and the
67 Henry Lee (hyl@microplex.co)
69 Henry sent me a M202 ethernet print server, making my little lan
70 one of the few home networks to have it's own print server!
72 ``Microplex Systems Ltd. is a manufacturer of local and wide area
73 network communications equipment based in beautiful Vancouver, British
74 Columbia, Canada. Microplex's first products were synchronous wide
75 area network devices used in the mainframe communication networks. In
76 August 1991 Microplex introduced its first LAN product, the M200 print
77 server, the first high performance print server under US$1,000.''
80 Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com)
82 Tom sent me two 16 bit SMC ethernet cards to replace my ancient 8
83 bit ones. The performance is much better!
85 Software Metrics Inc. is a small custom software development and
86 consulting firm located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. We work
87 with a variety of environments (such as Windows, Windows NT and
88 Unix), tools and application areas, and can provide assistance for
89 development work ranging from a few days to multiple man-year
90 projects. You can find more information at http://www.metrics.com/.
93 Steve Kennedy (steve@gbnet.net)
95 Steve sent me 16Mb of ram so that I could install/test
96 NT3.5. I previous had only 8Mb ram in my test machine, which
97 wasn't enough to install a properly functioning copy of
98 NTAS. Being able to directly test NT3.5 allowed me to solve
99 several long standing NT<->Samba problems. Thanks Steve!
101 John Terpstra (jht@aquasoft.com.au)
103 Aquasoft are a specialist consulting company whose Samba-using
104 customers span the world.
106 Aquasoft have been avid supporters of the Samba project. As a
107 token of appreciation Aquasoft have donated a 486DX2/66 PC with
108 a 540MB EIDE drive and 20MB RAM.
110 John has helped to isolate quite a few little glitches over time
111 and has managed to implement some very interesting installations
114 The donation of the new PC will make it possible to more fully
115 diagnose and observe the behaviour of Samba in conjuction with
116 other SMB protocol utilising systems.
119 Timothy F. Sipples (tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM)
120 Steve Withers (swithers@vnet.IBM.COM)
122 Tim and Steve from IBM organised a copy of the OS/2 developers
123 connection CD set for me, and gave lots of help in getting
124 OS/2 Warp installed. I hope this will allow me to finally fix
125 up those annoying OS/2 related Samba bugs that I have been
126 receiving reports of.
128 Keith Wilkins (wilki1k@nectech.co.uk)
130 Keith from NEC in England very generously supplied a PC to
131 Luke Leighton to help with his nmbd development work. At the
132 same time Keith offered to help me with some new hardware, and
133 he sent me a pentium motherboard with 32MB of ram
134 onboard. This was very helpful as it allowed me to upgrade
135 my aging server to be a very powerful system. Thanks!