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