well as some of you may or may not already know, samba 3.0 was released on the 24th of this month.
I wonder if xbmp will incorporate this and if it will solve a lot of errors.
i'm not exactly sure what's improved over the older version, but it has to be better.
http://us4.samba.org/samba/samba.html

Hehe, not exactly sure...


How about Active Directory support and LDAP/Kerberos user authentication. If this really works, then you will be able to use your Xbox as a domain controller for your LAN. Very sweet.

Oh dear... talk about bloat - I really hope they don't incorporate useless server stuff like this into xbmp - it's a media player/client, not a server. Apparently they are going to rewrite the samba stuff in xbmp, so hopefully it will be more reliable and work much easier (without requiring huge modifications to smb.conf).

Adding a Samba server to EvoX would make a lot more sense. Imagine how unbelievably easy it would be to modify your config files and move apps to the Xbox if it were accessible from a drive letter.

Adding the Samba 3.0 CLIENT to XBMP would be nice. I really don't like how XBMP currently requires you to have a linux file server specially configured (security = share) in order for XBMP to see it - it causes the server to perform slower. Hopefully this would change if XBMP upgrades.