I'm just gonna leave this here..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Once Plex started trying to charge me for casting to my SONOS devices I moved to emby.

https://emby.media/index.html

They do have some smart TV support:

https://emby.media/community/i...

(Comment I also added to the register article - but I like /. too :-).

I offered to go with Linus to Sao Paulo zoo once to help him avoid having to meet Lula, the president of Brasil which he really didn't want to do :-). I did so only on the condition he do an interview with me. I was fed up of people asking Linus about Linux, so I only asked him questions about the Sinclair QL, which both he and I enjoyed. Interview is still available on youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://twitter.com/GoogleNoDe...

There are companies who do "pay for play" Samba development. You pay 'em and tell them what you want in Samba, and they'll write it and upstream it for you.

Might be more than you want to pay though.

Samba does implement DFS, I wrote lots of the code for it and updated it recently :-).

I think you mean it doesn't implement DFS replication in the same way that Windows does.

Samba is only configured one way, via the smb.conf file.

Runtime control can be done via smbcontrol, but the base config file is always smb.conf.

When using local uses passwords *must* be separate as the SMB protocol and Linux passwords use completely different crypto.

Of course if you want synchronised passwords just add the Linux machine into the Active Directory Domain using Samba's winbind and users and passwords are identical of course.

Samba with an the iouring backend is as performant as an in-kernel version.

See Metze's talk this week at SNIA SDC 2023 in Freemont, CA. for details:

https://storagedeveloper.org/e...

This is completely incorrect.

Microsoft do not concern themselves with what SMB versions Samba supports when considering maintenance. At all.

As it should be IMHO. We match current versions of Windows and only keep SMB1 around in an "off-by-default" state for customers who can't or won't update old Windows / DOS clients.

Just to add, for this reason I'm only helping out with the C coding, not leading the effort :-). The person in charge knows his stuff !

It's a fair cop :-). I've only started FIPS work in earnest since I got laid-off from Google and joined CIQ, so I'm not cognizant of all the correct terms.

Yeah, it's important for customers though.