[maemo-developers] Samba support dropped (was Re: N810 WE)

[From: Denis Dimick]

I wonder if it's possible to put up an interest poll, and see what users are
looking for? I myself use SMB at home to support the two windows systems the
kids use, and allow for an easy mounting on the remaining 3 Mac's, however,
currently I'm not using SMB to mount to my n810; it would be like using SMB
to have two Unix systems share files.

I don't think we can consider ourselves "Normal Users" since we belong to
this mailing list, however, I'm very pleased at the tone of support for SMB
expressed here; normally on other mailing lists there is a considerable
smaller amount of support for windows users and the trials they have to
endure.

Just my 2 cents,

Denis

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On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Graham Cobb
<g+770 at cobb.uk.net<g%2B770 at cobb.uk.net>
> wrote:

> On Monday 19 January 2009 11:53:45 Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
> > What SMB would be useful for is sharing data with a network drive.
> > They usually share the disk via SMB, NFS or AFP and, as far I know,
> > Maemo, starting from Fremantle, does not deploy any of those clients.
>
> Samba would be an ideal opportunity for Nokia to consider helping" a
> community
> add-on (I would have said "support" but that implies bug fixing, which is
> not
> what I mean).  Given that the community exists, with a single place to go
> looking for stuff, there is an ideal way for Nokia to provide useful
> features
> without having to commit the resources to test and support them
> indefinitely.
>
> Nokia "help" for a community package for Samba (or NFS or AFS or...), fully
> integrated into the Maemo environment, could be expressed in several ways.
> For example, some Nokia employees could be paid to spend some of their time
> on the project (wouldn't it be great if the Maemo team were allowed a
> Google-style 20% time to spend on community projects), or Nokia could help
> with testing or contribute resources to the upstream project or something.
>
> I know Nokia marketing has been looking for innovative and sexy projects,
> which can show off the features and lifestyle of the new tablet, to help.
> But this can also be a useful tool for those more mundane features which
> aren't necessarily hard to implement but which consume an unreasonable
> proportion of testing and support (like remote filesystems).  In exchange,
> Nokia would get a useful feature, with no support commitment and would also
> be able to measure just how important users think the feature is by
> measuring
> downloads.
>
> At a minimum, I hope Nokia is providing any code, test scripts, etc. they
> developed while they were supporting Samba to the community so that they
> can
> be used if someone else picks up support for it.
>
> Graham
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