Michael Adam

I have been working on Samba code since 2006, and I am a member of the Samba Team since Spring 2007. I am working for Red Hat, where I lead the Samba team of the Storage Server and the Container Native Storage team. Previously, I worked on Samba for SerNet.

Contact

I can be reached via email as obnox@samba.org and as obnox on irc.freenode.net in the channel #samba-technical. Please direct general user questions to samba@lists.samba.org and development questions to samba-technical@lists.samba.org.

Contributions

Up to now, I have mainly been working on the file server part of Samba. An overview of my contributions is avaliable in my ohloh profile:
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Main projects:

• SMB3, specifically multi-channel
• id-mapping
• clustering extensions (ctdb)
• registry configuration system (libsmbconf)
• net conf and net registry commandline tools
• registry code cleanup/restructuring
• build system and libraries
• posix acl filesystem implementations (vfs modules)
• vfs api cleanups
• winbind cache tdb validation code

Presentations / Publications

2010

• samba eXPerience 2010, May 03--07, 2010, Göttingen,
  
  • Clustering Samba with CTDB (Tutorial):
    slides, handout
  • Lessons Learned in Clustered Samba (Talk):
    slides handout

2009

• Articles in Linux Magzine, issue #105 (August 2009):
  
  • Close Ranks - Setting up a file server cluster with Samba and CTDB (pp 30--34)
  • New Dance - Exploring Samba's new registry-based configuration (pp 36--40)
• Co-author of 3rd edition of the german book
  Samba 3 für Unix/Linux-Administratoren,
  with Volker Lendecke, Karolin Seeger and Björn Jacke,
  ISBN 978-3-89864-605-5, dpunkt.verlag, August 2009
• Article in the German Linux-Magazin, issue 05/2009 (May 2009):
  Tanzen in der Formation - Geclusterter CIFS-Server mit Samba und CTDB (pp 36--43)
• LinuxTag 2009, June 24, 2009, Berlin,
  Clustered CIFS For Everybody:
  slides, slides (as text)
• NLUUG Spring conference 2009 - Filesystems and Storage, May 7, Ede, Netherlands,
  Clustered NAS for Everyone - Clustering Samba with CTDB:
  slides, slides (as text), paper,
• samba eXPerience 2009, April 21--24, 2009, Göttingen,
  
  • Clustered CIFS-Server with Samba and CTDB (Tutorial):
    slides, slides (as text), paper
  • ID Mapping Re-Revisited (Talk):
    slides slides (as text)

2008

• ubucon 2008, October 2008, Göttingen, Germany,
  Windows-Interoperatibiliät in ubuntu mit Samba und Likewise-Open (in German)
  slides
• Linux Kongress 2008, October 2008, Hamburg, Germany,
  "Samba's New Registry Based Configuration System" (with emphasis on clustered Samba):
  slides, paper (published in Uptimes #2/2008, ISBN 978-3-86541-300-0)
• sambaXP 2008, April 2008, Göttingen, Germany,
  "Samba's New Configuration System (libsmbconf)":
  slides

2006

• Source Talk Tage 2006, September 2006, Göttingen, Germany,
  "Samba unter (Open)Solaris"
• Co-author of the German book
  "Samba 3 für Unix/Linux-Administratoren" (2rd ed)
  Volker Lendecke, Karolin Seeger, Björn Jacke, Michael Adam
  dpunkt.verlag, 2006