1===================================================================== 2This file is for thanks to individuals or organisations who have 3helped with the development of Samba, other than by coding or bug 4reports. Their contributions are gratefully acknowledged. 5 6Please refer to the manual pages and change-log for a list of those 7who have contributed in the form of patches, bug fixes or other 8direct changes to the package. 9 10Contributions of any kind are welcomed. If you want to help then 11please contact Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au, or via normal mail at 12 13 Andrew Tridgell 14 3 Ballow Crescent 15 Macgregor, A.C.T 16 2615 Australia 17===================================================================== 18 19 20Lee Fisher (leefi@microsoft.com) 21Charles Fox (cfox@microsoft.com) 22Dan Perry (danp@exchnge.microsoft.com) 23Paul Leach (paulle@microsoft.com) 24Isaac Heizer (isaache@microsoft.com) 25 26 These Microsoft people have been very helpful and supportive of 27 the development of Samba over some years. 28 29 Lee very kindly supplied me with a copy of the X/Open SMB 30 specs. These have been invaluable in getting the details of the 31 implementation right. They will become even more important as we move 32 towards a Lanman 2.1 compliant server. Lee has provided very 33 useful advice on several aspects of the server. 34 Lee has also provided me with copies of Windows NTAS 3.1, Visual C 35 and a developers CD-ROM. Being able to run NT at home is a 36 great help. 37 38 Charles has helped out in numerous ways with the provision of SMB 39 specifications and helpful advice. He has been following the 40 discussion of Samba on the mailing list and has stepped in 41 regularly to clarify points and to offer help. 42 43 Dan has put me in touch with NT developers to help sort out bugs and 44 compatability issues. He has also supplied me with a copy of the 45 NT browsing spec, which will help a lot in the development of the 46 Samba browser code. 47 48 Paul was responsible for Microsoft paying my flight to Seattle for the 49 first CIFS conference (see http://samba.org/cifs) and has been 50 generally helpful and cooperative as the SMB community moves towards 51 an Internet-ready specification. Isaac has regularly provided help on 52 the behaviour of NT networks. 53 54Bruce Perens (bruce@pixar.com) 55 56 In appreciation of his effort on Samba we have sent Andrew copies of 57 various Pixar computer-graphics software products. Pixar is best known 58 for its "Renderman" product, the 3-D renderer used by ILM to make special 59 effects for "Terminator II" and "Jurassic Park". We won the first Oscar 60 given to a computer graphic animated feature for our short film "Tin Toy". 61 Our retail products "Typestry" and "Showplace", incorporate the same 62 renderer used on the films, and are available on Windows and the 63 Macintosh. 64 65 66 67Henry Lee (hyl@microplex.co) 68 69 Henry sent me a M202 ethernet print server, making my little lan 70 one of the few home networks to have it's own print server! 71 72 ``Microplex Systems Ltd. is a manufacturer of local and wide area 73 network communications equipment based in beautiful Vancouver, British 74 Columbia, Canada. Microplex's first products were synchronous wide 75 area network devices used in the mainframe communication networks. In 76 August 1991 Microplex introduced its first LAN product, the M200 print 77 server, the first high performance print server under US$1,000.'' 78 79 80Tom Haapanen (tomh@metrics.com) 81 82 Tom sent me two 16 bit SMC ethernet cards to replace my ancient 8 83 bit ones. The performance is much better! 84 85 Software Metrics Inc. is a small custom software development and 86 consulting firm located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. We work 87 with a variety of environments (such as Windows, Windows NT and 88 Unix), tools and application areas, and can provide assistance for 89 development work ranging from a few days to to multiple man-year 90 projects. You can find more information at http://www.metrics.com/. 91 92 93Steve Kennedy (steve@gbnet.net) 94 95 Steve sent me 16Mb of ram so that I could install/test 96 NT3.5. I previous had only 8Mb ram in my test machine, which 97 wasn't enough to install a properly functioning copy of 98 NTAS. Being able to directly test NT3.5 allowed me to solve 99 several long standing NT<->Samba problems. Thanks Steve! 100 101John Terpstra (jht@aquasoft.com.au) 102 103 Aquasoft are a specialist consulting company whose Samba-using 104 customers span the world. 105 106 Aquasoft have been avid supporters of the Samba project. As a 107 token of appreciation Aquasoft have donated a 486DX2/66 PC with 108 a 540MB EIDE drive and 20MB RAM. 109 110 John has helped to isolate quite a few little glitches over time 111 and has managed to implement some very interesting installations 112 of Samba. 113 114 The donation of the new PC will make it possible to more fully 115 diagnose and observe the behaviour of Samba in conjuction with 116 other SMB protocol utilising systems. 117 118 119Timothy F. Sipples (tsipple@vnet.IBM.COM) 120Steve Withers (swithers@vnet.IBM.COM) 121 122 Tim and Steve from IBM organised a copy of the OS/2 developers 123 connection CD set for me, and gave lots of help in getting 124 OS/2 Warp installed. I hope this will allow me to finally fix 125 up those annoying OS/2 related Samba bugs that I have been 126 receiving reports of. 127 128Keith Wilkins (wilki1k@nectech.co.uk) 129 130 Keith from NEC in England very generously supplied a PC to 131 Luke Leighton to help with his nmbd development work. At the 132 same time Keith offered to help me with some new hardware, and 133 he sent me a pentium motherboard with 32MB of ram 134 onboard. This was very helpful as it allowed me to upgrade 135 my aging server to be a very powerful system. Thanks! 136 137 138