SerNet is part of the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) as Silver Sponsor. The SDC, hosted by SNIA, will take place from September 11 - 14 in Santa Clara (California, USA). In addition to the Samba developer team, SerNet is also present with its sales team and information about SAMBA+.
Ralph Böhme and Stefan Metzmacher, members of the international Samba team and Samba developers at SerNet, also contribute to the SDC program. Stefan Metzmacher will be speaking on "Windows Authentication With Multiple Domains and Forests" on Wednesday, September 13, from 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm local time in room Lafayette / San Tomas. The talk provides an overview of the authentication protocols used in Samba (Kerberos, NTLMSSP and Netlogon Secure Channel). As well as their limitations, different trust levels, and the status of Samba as AD DC regarding trust.
"Understanding and Improving Samba Fileserver Performance" is the lecture by Ralph Böhme. Also on Wednesday, September 13, he will talk about the work that was put into the optimization of the file server performance of Samba last year from 2:00 pm to 2:50 pm (local time) in room Lafayette / San Tomas.