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The important things to remember here are: 1) Samba is a reverse engineering of a proprietary protocol. 2) Novell and M$ are working together to increase M$/Linux interactivity - with the real protocol specs Novell will be able to produce a smaller/tighter/faster integration without referring to Samba code - unless M$ does it for them, or perhaps M$ have already done something in VastaMistake that will prevent Samba catching up (DRM ing something out of malice) They could right this up on proprietary code so they wont give a hoot about GPLn. 3) Samba is for communication with a dying computer OS. You should only use it to talk to legacy systems while migrating their users. You wont need to stick it somewhere they have Vasta -they'll be too licensed up to make it worthwhile. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html