lwio watch: Week 6 continued (ends February 20th, 2009 today)
It has been a super productive week.
First the highlights. The lwio SMB File Server has hugely advanced. Most operations from the Windows XP command line work. Copying files, xcopying, making directories, net use, net use /del, single sign-on are all fully operational. In addition, the Windows explorer is almost completely functional. We’ve yet to support server-side file change notifications (i.e changes to the remote directory are not immediately visible in the Windows Explorer, the simple workaround is to hit the refresh button). You can view thumbnails of pictures and photographs, you can bring up notepad on a file directly. In all, we have a pretty useful file server.
Today we plan on starting internal dog-fooding. We will be hosting our own server and placing large size OS iso images which we use, so that everyone in the engineering team can upload/download files to the server. We’re putting all our VMs as well on the server and will subject the server to a significant amount of stress.
The day is not yet done. It is 8:38 hrs PST out here in Bellevue WA. We plan to have the file share management work done by end of day today. This will allow us to create file shares on the Likewise SMB File Server via MMC’s Add Share Wizard. Also, we plan on add a File Management plugin on the Likewise Administrators Console that will allow Linux Administrators to graphically manage their own Linux Likewise File Servers from Linux desktops.
Its been a good week!
