[ale] [OT] Microsoft Memo Says It's Been Ineffective InCombating Open Source

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

The last round of "service packs" really fouled up samba connections for
print services in particular. Get the latest samba up and running and it
all comes back. 

M$ "fixes" and Samba team refixes.

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 22:45, Adrin wrote:
> I don't know.   The latest service pack puts a pretty good lock on print and
> file sharing.   Has anyone else had problems like this?
> Not being able to use Samba as a domain control after upgrading client PC to
> latest SP?  Or not being able to share printers connect to a pc, (The
> Unix/Linux box can no longer print through the windows machine.)
> 
> 
> Adrin
> 
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: Jay Finch [mailto:retief at larp.com]
>   Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 6:47 PM
>   To: ale at ale.org
>   Subject: [ale] [OT] Microsoft Memo Says It's Been Ineffective In Combating
> Open Source
> 
> 
>   This is interesting...
> 
>   Microsoft Memo Says It's Been Ineffective In Combating Open Source
>   Sun Nov 10, 9:04 AM ET
>   Mitch Wagner, InternetWeek
>   Microsoft believes many of its efforts to market its products against
> Linux (news - web sites) and open source are backfiring, according to an
> internal memo leaked and posted on the Internet.
> 
> 
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=74&e=1&cid=74&u=/cmp/200211
> 10/tc_cmp/inw20021110s0005
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