Apple purges Open Apple sauce of OSX server TechEye

 

Steve Jobs ' Apple Inc. is ending her relationship with an Open Source product key through all aspects of Samba software of the upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Remove Server

We would not have thought that a control-freak like job would have a lot of love to the free-wheeling, Open Source movement, but Apple began bundling Samba with Mac OS X 10.2 to help Mac users to connect with Microsoft's Windows file and network directory services.

Samba, however, is moved to the GPL 3 license which is a little stricter and makes it a bit too free for Jobs flavors. He has decided to open source the previously bundled Samba software remove and replace it with Apple's own tools for Windows file sharing and directory services.

Developers have told Appleinsider that jobs Mob internally has officially announced that it will be Samba of Mac OS X Server lion and Lion, and replaced by Windows networking software developed by Apple.

It will be called SMBX, and supports the newer Microsoft SMB2 version of her own but openly published protocol, which was released in Windows Vista.

While this sounds horrible, it is better than what was used before jobs crowd. Samba only supported the original SMB1 and SBM2 is both faster and more efficiently.

The new regime will have access to both Macs and Windows-style file shares allow. However, it will not support the NT Domain Controller functions of Samba. These were a fairly strange quirk anyway if they relate to Microsoft the 1990 's, have NT-era directory service supported prior to Active Directory.

Some network managers want still use NT Domain Controller configurations because it is a no brainer in comparison with Active Directory. Jobs Mob is, however, to do the right thing here and telling them to pull finger and move into the 21st century.

Getting rid of Samba also means that the Macs actually better able to work around modern Pcs running Windows 7. Windows 7 had some security changes in how encryption protocols works which were impossible under Samba.

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