Tag Archives: Samba

PeerDist Protocol: Generating Content Information

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Chris

There hasn’t been a lot of time to work on Prequel lately, but I stole a half an hour today and cleaned up a couple of test programs so that I could post them on the project home page.

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PeerDist Protocol: Extracting the Server Secret

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Chris

The Prequel project has been occupying most of my very-limited free time over the past couple of weeks. Prequel is aimed at creating an Open Source implementation of Microsoft’s PeerDist (also known as BranchCache™) protocol. I started on this about … Continue reading →

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STiB v0.2 Released

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Chris

STiB is a project aimed at implementing Microsoft’s BITS Upload Protocol. The v0.2 release of STiB includes an updated stibtest program that adds minimal support for the HTTP GET command.  The key feature is that stibtest allows the user to … Continue reading →

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Interviewed

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Chris

The annual Samba eXPerience conference was held last May in Germany. Some of us Samba-folk were interviewed by Linux Outlaws.

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jCIFS 1.3.16 Released

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Chris

Mike Allen has released jCIFS 1.3.16. jCIFS is an SMB/CIFS client toolkit written in Java.

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From Göttingen to Redmond

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Chris

The 10th annual Samba eXPerience conference was held last May in Göttingen, Germany.  It marked several major milestones (well, it was the EU, so these were Kilometerstones): SambaXP was the unofficial end of my one-year hiatus from SMB/CIFS development. During … Continue reading →

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