Development Resources

Microsoft Documentation=

WSPP Documentation

As a result of the EU case, the Samba team [access] to Microsoft's documentation of the protocols it uses. This program is known as WSPP.

In March 2008, this documentation was made public, and is now available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc197979.aspx

WINS Documentation

[Planning WINS deployments in NT4|http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/plan/winswp.mspx?mfr=true]

[WINS White Paper|ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/winnt/winnt-docs/papers/WINSWP.doc] [Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 WINS: Architecture and Capacity Planning|http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms810878.aspx]

Samba Team Documents

Thesis Documents

Andrew Bartlett's thesis on Samba4 and AD is available from http://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/abartlet_thesis.pdf.

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher's thesis, covering the internal Samba architecture as it surrounds AD replication in particular is at http://samba.org/~metze/presentations/2007/thesis/

Source code tools

The Build farm tests Samba across a number of platforms, and provides code coverage statistics on our test-suite.