On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 11:25 -0600, Brian Vincent wrote:
I thought someone might have posted this by now. Andrew Bartlet wrote this:
http://people.samba.org/people/abartlet/a-year-since-microsofts-appeal-faile...
quote:
"Microsoft has also answered dozens of documentation queries on the cifs-protocol mailing list and in private email from PFIF members (the PFIF is the umbrella organization that signed the WSPP agreement on behalf of the Samba Team)."
"However, the WSPP program and Microsoft's new protocol documentation is not just about 'Samba' things - the protocols covered are any that a windows client uses to talk to a windows server. Many other Free Software projects can and should take advantage of the new documentation and clarification process."
"In might be reasonable to ask why Microsoft is putting such a strong effort into making the WSPP agreement a success. Obviously the ongoing EU legal appeal regarding the fines levied against Microsoft by the EU could be a motivating factor, but regardless of that motivation the individual engineers we are working with are responding with enthusiasm."
Reading on, it seems Samba got access to internal MS conformance tests among other things. It seems like it's probably worth a few emails the Andrew for details and a few calls to Microsoft to see if there's anything that might help out with things besides CIFS.
The trick is to find protocols in this list:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197979.aspx
The other protocols you can access the 'community support' for (as Kai Blin has found out on the forums), but you can't do the e-mail or phone based stuff.
Andrew Bartlett