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The geeks out there who use commandline on a popular set of operating systems (linux) may or may not know about bash_completion. bash_completion is awesome, it adds more tabbing to your typing. You type ssh <tab> <tab> and it starts suggesting what you might want to type, like hosts, or switches. It autocompletes when it can, and it makes life very easy. To the non-geek this translates into very efficient commandlines, and that is why geeks dig the commandline. I always thought bash_completion was awesome, but lacking a critical feature.

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I work in a department which runs it's network using a windows domain controller (active directory). Now, as it stands, Samba can operate as a drop in ADS for a lot of cases, so it's ADS is pretty good. The major limitation to Samba's support is lack of DFS (Dynamic file share), the Microsoft equvalent of network symlinks. But that is not what this article is about.

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