What is the relationship between Samba and Samba-TNG?
Samba is a large, well-established project with a great deal of corporate interest and involvement. As such, they have to be very careful when making large changes to their code. This has led to the attitude that the code repository should be kept pretty much in working condition at all times, making it difficult to implement experimental changes and improvements. The Samba-TNG project started in late 1999 as a separate CVS branch of the Samba code, specifically to allow some of the more experimental code ideas to be fleshed out and tested without affecting the stability of Samba as a whole. Specifically, developer Luke Leighton had many new ideas about the design of the domain controller code, some of which were considered either too risky or too controversial for the main development codebase. Thus, the Samba-TNG branch was initially his playground for trying out these ideas. In October 2000 the project was moved to its own servers, mailing lists, etc. and the world heard about the “
