Nathan Vander Wilt

wen someone #RewriteItInRust for a lightweight SMB server daemon?

afaict the available options in 2025 are:

1. Ye Olde Samba System
2. somebody's new project to have the kernel itself host it instead (?!)

Dec 3 at 9:11pmWeb
Show threadNathan Vander WiltDec 3

the protocol must be incredibly cursed if we can have like 20,000 options for serving HTTP and like 200 for serving IMAP and like 20 for LDAP

but only 2 for SMB (only the older legacy one not requiring a kernel rebuild to use)

Show threadNathan Vander WiltDec 3
remember when Apache was for the 1980s and 1990s but then `nginx` came out for the 2000s and the 2020s and probably now all the cool kids use idk l33tBVLVNCE or CloudFlare by Meta's Direct-to-Monad® podlet dropup?
Show threadNathan Vander WiltDec 3

idk part of me will be mad when all the tools I'm learning now are gone in less than a decade

but half the documentation for Samba is still about Windows 9x clients like the first time I learned to set it up back in the 10BASE2 days. I do not want to set up a bunch of actual host user accounts with plaintext passwords on my Raspberry Pi just to share some files

Show threadChuckDec 3
@natevw The CIFS protocol is quite cursed. There are a bazillion options and 90% of them require Active Directory to work it seems.