Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
Latest Samba 2.2 release: Samba 2.2.9
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Latest Samba 3.0 release: Samba 3.0.4
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The first preview release of Samba 3.0.5 is now available download in gzipped format. The GPG signature is for the uncompressed tarball. There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.4 release that we feel are important to make available to the Samba community for wider testings. This release is not intended for production servers. Use at your own risk. Please refer to the Release Notes for descriptions of the exact changes.
ATTENTION! NEW BEHAVIOR!
Beginning with Samba 3.0.5pre1, clients supporting the UNIX extensions to the CIFS protocol can create symlinks to absolute paths which will be followed by the server. This functionality has been requested in order to correctly support certain applications when the user's home directory is mounted using some type of CIFS client (e.g. the cifsvfs in the Linux 2.6 kernel).
If this behavior is not acceptable for your production environment you can set wide links = no in the specific share declaration in the server's smb.conf. Be aware that disabling wide link support out of a share in Samba may impact the server's performance due to the fact that smbd will now have to check each path additional times before traversing it.
RPMS for RedHat 8/9 and Fedora Core 1 can be also be downloaded.
The latest patch release of the 3.0 code base, Samba 3.0.4, is available for download in gzipped format. The GPG signature is for the uncompressed tarball. This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version that production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. There have been several issues fixed since the 3.0.3 release, the most visible of which is the problem with user password changes after applying the Microsoft security hotfix described in KB828741 to Windows NT 4.0/200x/XP clients. Please refer to the Release Notes for descriptions of the exact changes and new features.
Samba 2.2.9 is the latest stable release of the Samba 2.2 code base. This is a maintenance release of Samba 2.2.8a to address the problem with user password changes after applying the Microsoft hotfix described in KB828741 to Windows NT 4.0/200x/XP clients. No other changes have been applied since Samba 2.2.8a. There are no further Samba 2.2.x releases planned at this time. Samba 2.2.9 can be downloaded in gzipped format. The GPG signature is for the uncompressed tarball. The release notes are available on-line.
Pre-built packages of Samba 3.0.4 and 2.2.9 can be downloaded from the Binary_Packages directory on samba.org.
If you are looking for bzip2 versions of the tarballs, please read this note.
The latest patch release of the 3.0 code base, Samba 3.0.3, is available for download in both gzipped format and bzip2 format. The GPG signature is for the uncompressed tarball. This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version that production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. There have been several issues fixed since the 3.0.2a release, and new features have been added as well. Please refer to the Release Notes for descriptions of the exact changes and new features.
Pre-built packages can be downloaded from the Binary_Packages directory on samba.org.
We are glad to have Deryck join the Samba team as the new maintainer of the web content on http://samba.org. In fact, he has already been hard at work now for about a week.
SambaXP (www.sambaxp.org), 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. SerNet did a great job as always of hosting. Thanks to everyone who worked hard to make the event the success that it was.
Slides are available from three of the talks here.
More to come from the conference when it becomes available.
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 subversion page. To download Subversion go to subversion.tigris.org.
Tech book publisher Prentice Hall PTR announces that Samba-Team member John H. Terpstra's latest book, Samba-3 By Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment (ISBN 0131472216), is now available at Amazon.com and direct from the publisher at www.informit.com/terpstra and at bookstores nationwide. Samba-3 By Example is the companion follow-up book to The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide (ISBN 0131453556), which was co-edited by John H. Terpstra and fellow Samba-Team member Jelmer R. Vernooij.
Samba-3 By Example was written in response to demand for real-world worked examples of Samba-3 configurations. A CD-ROM included within the book contains all examples of configuration files, scripts, and tools covered in the book. This CD-ROM also has the binary and source packages for SuSE and Red Hat Linux products.
Prentice Hall PTR is pleased to announce that the full source of both books, The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide and the new publication Samba-3 by Example have been posted to Samba.Org samba-docs public code tree. All books in the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series are published under the OPL.
For more information see: InformIT or Amazon.Com. The PDF and HTML versions of Samba-3 by Example (The Samba Guide) will appear on the Samba web site by April 14th under the documentation page.
The German PC Professionell Magazine has awarded Samba 3 as the Innovation of the years 2003/2004 in the category Network. Volker Lendecke has accepted the award at the Magazine's CeBIT party.
Tests by the UK magazine ITWEEK show that an untuned Samba3 server outperforms an untuned Windows 2003 server on the same hardware by a factor of 2.5 times. The news article is here and the test results in graph form are here.
Over the past few months, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International, Inc.
a Linux distribution vendor) has been complaining about violations of its
Copyright works by the Linux kernel code.
Recently, Darl McBride, the Chief Executive Officer of SCO has been making
pejorative statements regarding the license used by the Linux kernel, the
GNU GPL. In a keynote speech he recently said:
"At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value."
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