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This file is for thanks to individuals or organisations who have
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helped with the development of Samba, other than by coding or bug
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reports. Their contributions are gratefully acknowledged.
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Please refer to the manual pages and change-log for a list of those
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who have contributed in the form of patches, bug fixes or other
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direct changes to the package.
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Contributions of any kind are welcomed. If you want to help then
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please contact Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au, or via normal mail at
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Lee Fisher (leefi@microsoft.com)
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Charles Fox (cfox@microsoft.com)
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Dan Perry (danp@exchnge.microsoft.com)
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Paul Leach (paulle@microsoft.com)
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Isaac Heizer (isaache@microsoft.com)
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These Microsoft people have been very helpful and supportive of
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the development of Samba over some years.
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Lee very kindly supplied me with a copy of the X/Open SMB
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specs. These have been invaluable in getting the details of the
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implementation right. They will become even more important as we move
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towards a Lanman 2.1 compliant server. Lee has provided very
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useful advice on several aspects of the server.
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Lee has also provided me with copies of Windows NTAS 3.1, Visual C
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and a developers CD-ROM. Being able to run NT at home is a
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Charles has helped out in numerous ways with the provision of SMB
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specifications and helpful advice. He has been following the
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discussion of Samba on the mailing list and has stepped in
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regularly to clarify points and to offer help.
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Dan has put me in touch with NT developers to help sort out bugs and
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compatability issues. He has also supplied me with a copy of the
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NT browsing spec, which will help a lot in the development of the
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Paul was responsible for Microsoft paying my flight to Seattle for the
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first CIFS conference (see http://samba.org/cifs) and has been
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generally helpful and cooperative as the SMB community moves towards
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an Internet-ready specification. Isaac has regularly provided help on
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the behaviour of NT networks.
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Bruce Perens (bruce@pixar.com)
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In appreciation of his effort on Samba we have sent Andrew copies of
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various Pixar computer-graphics software products. Pixar is best known
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for its "Renderman" product, the 3-D renderer used by ILM to make special
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effects for "Terminator II" and "Jurassic Park". We won the first Oscar
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given to a computer graphic animated feature for our short film "Tin Toy".
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Our retail products "Typestry" and "Showplace", incorporate the same
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renderer used on the films, and are available on Windows and the
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Henry Lee (hyl@microplex.co)
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Henry sent me a M202 ethernet print server, making my little lan
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one of the few home networks to have it's own print server!
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``Microplex Systems Ltd. is a manufacturer of local and wide area
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network communications equipment based in beautiful Vancouver, British
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Columbia, Canada. Microplex's first products were synchronous wide
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area network devices used in the mainframe communication networks. In
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August 1991 Microplex introduced its first LAN product, the M200 print
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server, the first high performance print server under US$1,000.''
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Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com)
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Tom sent me two 16 bit SMC ethernet cards to replace my ancient 8
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bit ones. The performance is much better!
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Software Metrics Inc. is a small custom software development and
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consulting firm located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. We work
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with a variety of environments (such as Windows, Windows NT and
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Unix), tools and application areas, and can provide assistance for
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development work ranging from a few days to to multiple man-year
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projects. You can find more information at http://www.metrics.com/.
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Steve Kennedy (steve@gbnet.net)
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Steve sent me 16Mb of ram so that I could install/test
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NT3.5. I previous had only 8Mb ram in my test machine, which
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wasn't enough to install a properly functioning copy of
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NTAS. Being able to directly test NT3.5 allowed me to solve
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several long standing NT<->Samba problems. Thanks Steve!
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John Terpstra (jht@aquasoft.com.au)
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Aquasoft are a specialist consulting company whose Samba-using
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customers span the world.
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Aquasoft have been avid supporters of the Samba project. As a
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token of appreciation Aquasoft have donated a 486DX2/66 PC with
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a 540MB EIDE drive and 20MB RAM.
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John has helped to isolate quite a few little glitches over time
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and has managed to implement some very interesting installations
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The donation of the new PC will make it possible to more fully
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diagnose and observe the behaviour of Samba in conjuction with
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other SMB protocol utilising systems.
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Timothy F. Sipples (tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM)
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Steve Withers (swithers@vnet.IBM.COM)
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Tim and Steve from IBM organised a copy of the OS/2 developers
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connection CD set for me, and gave lots of help in getting
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OS/2 Warp installed. I hope this will allow me to finally fix
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up those annoying OS/2 related Samba bugs that I have been
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receiving reports of.
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Keith Wilkins (wilki1k@nectech.co.uk)
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Keith from NEC in England very generously supplied a PC to
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Luke Leighton to help with his nmbd development work. At the
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same time Keith offered to help me with some new hardware, and
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he sent me a pentium motherboard with 32MB of ram
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onboard. This was very helpful as it allowed me to upgrade
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my aging server to be a very powerful system. Thanks!