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4 <H2 ALIGN=CENTER>Welcome to the Samba web pages</H2>
6 <P>Samba is an <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/">Open Source</A>/<A
7 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free Software</A> suite
8 that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.
9 Samba is freely available under the <A HREF="docs/GPL.html">GNU General
12 <p>Please read these <a href="download.html#verify">instructions on how
13 to verify the GPG signature for Samba releases</a>.
16 <b>Latest Samba 2.2 release:</b> Samba 2.2.9
17 <a href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.9.tar.gz">gzipped</a>
18 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.9.html">release notes</a>
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21 <b>Latest Samba 3.0 release:</b> Samba 3.0.4
22 <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.4.tar.gz">gzipped</a>
23 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.4.html">release notes</a>
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31 <li>(8th Jul, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.5rc1 Available for Download</em>
32 <p>The first release candidate of Samba 3.0.5 is now available for
33 download in <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/samba-3.0.5rc1.tar.gz">gzipped
34 format</a>. The <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/samba-3.0.5rc1.tar.asc">GPG
35 signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
36 There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.4 release that
37 we feel are important to make available to the Samba community
38 for wider testings. This release is <b>not</b> intended for production
39 servers. Use at your own risk. Please refer to the <a
40 href="/samba/ftp/rc/WHATSNEW-3-0-5rc1.txt">Release Notes</a> for
41 descriptions of the exact changes.
43 <p>RPMS are available for <a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RedHat 8/9
44 and Fedora Core 1/2</a> and <a href="ftp://ftp.SuSE.com/pub/projects/samba/pre/">SuSE 8.1/9/9.1</a>.
45 Mirrors for the SuSE RPMS are mentioned in <a href="http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-binaries/2004-July/000650.html">
46 this email to the samba-binaries mailing list</a>.
52 <li>(16 June 2004) <em>Welcome new Samba Team member Vance Lankhaar</em>
53 <p>Vance is joining the Samba Team as maintainer of the <a
54 href="http://build.samba.org">build farm</a>. Vance has been
55 around Samba for a while now. He has previous contributions
56 to the build farm and has worked on Samba's documentation, and though
57 he didn't consider himself a C programmer at the time, he did build
58 the 'build options' support for smbd. We are glad to welcome Vance
65 <li>(25th May, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.5pre1 Available for Download</em>
66 <p>The first preview release of Samba 3.0.5 is now available for
67 download in <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
68 The <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
69 There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.4 release that
70 we feel are important to make available to the Samba community
71 for wider testings. This release is <b>not</b> intended for production
72 servers. Use at your own risk. Please refer to the <a
73 href="/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3-0-5pre1.txt">Release Notes</a> for
74 descriptions of the exact changes.
76 <P><b>ATTENTION! NEW BEHAVIOR!</b>
78 <p>Beginning with Samba 3.0.5pre1, clients supporting the UNIX
79 extensions to the CIFS protocol can create symlinks to
80 absolute paths which <em>will be followed</em> by the server. This
81 functionality has been requested in order to correctly support
82 certain applications when the user's home directory is mounted
83 using some type of CIFS client (e.g. the cifsvfs in the Linux
86 <p>If this behavior is not acceptable for your production environment,
87 you can set <a href="/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html">wide
88 links = no</a> in the specific share declaration in
89 the server's smb.conf. Be aware that disabling wide link support
90 out of a share in Samba may impact the server's performance due
91 to the fact that smbd will now have to check each path additional
92 times before traversing it.
94 <p><a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS for RedHat 8/9
95 and Fedora Core 1</a> can also be downloaded.
100 <li>(8th May, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.4 and 2.2.9 Available for Download</em>
101 <p>The latest patch release of the 3.0 code base, Samba 3.0.4,
102 is available for download in <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.4.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
103 The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.4.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
104 This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is
105 the version that production Samba servers should be running for all
106 current bug-fixes. There have been several issues fixed since
107 the 3.0.3 release, the most visible of which is the problem with user
108 password changes after applying the Microsoft security hotfix described
109 in KB828741 to Windows NT 4.0/200x/XP clients. Please
110 refer to the <a href="whatsnew/samba-3.0.4.html">Release Notes</a> for
111 descriptions of the exact changes and new features.
113 <p>Samba 2.2.9 is the latest stable release of the Samba 2.2
114 code base. This is a maintenance release of Samba 2.2.8a to
115 address the problem with user password changes after applying
116 the Microsoft hotfix described in KB828741 to Windows NT
117 4.0/200x/XP clients. No other changes have been applied since
118 Samba 2.2.8a. There are no further Samba 2.2.x releases planned
119 at this time. Samba 2.2.9 can be downloaded in <a
120 href="/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.9.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
121 The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.9.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is
122 for the uncompressed tarball. The <a
123 href="whatsnew/samba-2.2.9.html">release notes</a> are available on-line.
125 <p>Pre-built packages of Samba 3.0.4 and 2.2.9 can be downloaded from the
126 <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary_Packages</a> directory
129 <p>If you are looking for bzip2 versions of the tarballs, please <a
130 href="/samba/ftp/README-BZIP2">read this note</a>.
136 <li>(26th Apr, 2004) <em>SambaXP 2004 A Success</em>
137 <p>SambaXP (<a href="http://www.sambaxp.org">www.sambaxp.org</a>), held in Göttingen, Germany April 5-7, was a success and a good time for all involved. Thirteen Samba Team members were present, leading ten talks and tutorials over the three days. <a href="http://www.sernet.de/">SerNet</a> did a great job as always of hosting. Thanks to everyone who worked hard to make the event the success that it was.</p>
138 <p>Slides are available from three of the talks <a href="/samba/ftp/slides/sambaxp04/">here</a>.</p>
139 <p>More to come from the conference when it becomes available.</p>
144 <li>(25th Apr, 2004) <em>Samba Development Changes to Subversion</em>
145 <p>On 4 April 2004, Samba development changed its version control system from CVS to Subversion. For more information on accessing Samba via Subversion see the Samba <a href="/samba/subversion.html">subversion page</a>. To download Subversion go to <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">subversion.tigris.org</a>.</p>
151 <li>(9th Apr, 2004) <em>The Samba Team announces the Samba-3 by Example Book</em>
153 Tech book publisher Prentice Hall PTR announces that Samba-Team member John H.
154 Terpstra's latest book, <em>Samba-3 By Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment</em>
155 (ISBN 0131472216), is now available at Amazon.com and direct from the publisher at
156 www.informit.com/terpstra and at bookstores nationwide. <em>Samba-3 By Example</em>
157 is the companion follow-up book to <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em>
158 (ISBN 0131453556), which was co-edited by John H. Terpstra and fellow Samba-Team member
161 <em>Samba-3 By Example</em> was written in response to demand for real-world worked
162 examples of Samba-3 configurations. A CD-ROM included within the book contains all
163 examples of configuration files, scripts, and tools covered in the book. This CD-ROM
164 also has the binary and source packages for SuSE and Red Hat Linux products.
166 Prentice Hall PTR is pleased to announce that the full source of both books,
167 <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em> and the new publication
168 <em>Samba-3 by Example</em> have been posted to Samba.Org samba-docs public code tree.
169 All books in the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series are published under the OPL.
171 For more information see: <a href="http://www.informit.com/terpstra">InformIT</a> or
172 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131472216/qid%3D1077225188/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-8804968-9612156">Amazon.Com</a>.
173 The PDF and HTML versions of Samba-3 by Example (The Samba Guide) will appear on the
174 Samba web site by April 14th under <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/docs">the documentation</a>
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