| Original Author | |
| =============== | |
| Steve French (sfrench@samba.org) | |
| The author wishes to express his appreciation and thanks to: | |
| Andrew Tridgell (Samba team) for his early suggestions about smb/cifs VFS | |
| improvements. Thanks to IBM for allowing me time and test resources to pursue | |
| this project, to Jim McDonough from IBM (and the Samba Team) for his help, to | |
| the IBM Linux JFS team for explaining many esoteric Linux filesystem features. | |
| Jeremy Allison of the Samba team has done invaluable work in adding the server | |
| side of the original CIFS Unix extensions and reviewing and implementing | |
| portions of the newer CIFS POSIX extensions into the Samba 3 file server. Thank | |
| Dave Boutcher of IBM Rochester (author of the OS/400 smb/cifs filesystem client) | |
| for proving years ago that very good smb/cifs clients could be done on Unix-like | |
| operating systems. Volker Lendecke, Andrew Tridgell, Urban Widmark, John | |
| Newbigin and others for their work on the Linux smbfs module. Thanks to | |
| the other members of the Storage Network Industry Association CIFS Technical | |
| Workgroup for their work specifying this highly complex protocol and finally | |
| thanks to the Samba team for their technical advice and encouragement. | |
| Patch Contributors | |
| ------------------ | |
| Zwane Mwaikambo | |
| Andi Kleen | |
| Amrut Joshi | |
| Shobhit Dayal | |
| Sergey Vlasov | |
| Richard Hughes | |
| Yury Umanets | |
| Mark Hamzy (for some of the early cifs IPv6 work) | |
| Domen Puncer | |
| Jesper Juhl (in particular for lots of whitespace/formatting cleanup) | |
| Vince Negri and Dave Stahl (for finding an important caching bug) | |
| Adrian Bunk (kcalloc cleanups) | |
| Miklos Szeredi | |
| Kazeon team for various fixes especially for 2.4 version. | |
| Asser Ferno (Change Notify support) | |
| Shaggy (Dave Kleikamp) for innumerable small fs suggestions and some good cleanup | |
| Gunter Kukkukk (testing and suggestions for support of old servers) | |
| Igor Mammedov (DFS support) | |
| Jeff Layton (many, many fixes, as well as great work on the cifs Kerberos code) | |
| Test case and Bug Report contributors | |
| ------------------------------------- | |
| Thanks to those in the community who have submitted detailed bug reports | |
| and debug of problems they have found: Jochen Dolze, David Blaine, | |
| Rene Scharfe, Martin Josefsson, Alexander Wild, Anthony Liguori, | |
| Lars Muller, Urban Widmark, Massimiliano Ferrero, Howard Owen, | |
| Olaf Kirch, Kieron Briggs, Nick Millington and others. Also special | |
| mention to the Stanford Checker (SWAT) which pointed out many minor | |
| bugs in error paths. Valuable suggestions also have come from Al Viro | |
| and Dave Miller. | |
| And thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE testers for | |
| finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs. |