<H2>Samba News</H2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>(20th Apr, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.3RC1 available for download</em>
+ <p>
+ This is a release candidate snapshot of the Samba 3.0.3 code
+ base and should be considered for testing only. A release
+ candidate (RC) means that we are close to the final, stable
+ release and in provided for Quality Assurance (QA) purposes.
+ This release is <b>not</b> intended for production servers. Use
+ at your own risk.<br>
+
+ However, there have been several bug fixes and new features
+ added since 3.0.2a that we feel it is
+ important to make it available to the Samba community for wider testing.
+ The <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
+ can be found on Samba mirrors. <a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS
+ for RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, and Fedora Core 1</a> are currently available. Packages
+ for other platforms will become available as their are provided by volunteers. The
+ <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/WHATSNEW-3.0.3rc1.txt">full release notes</a> are
+ available on-line as well.
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+
<ul>
<li>(April 9, 2004) <em>The Samba Team announces the Samba-3 by Example Book</em>
<p>
</ul>
-<ul>
-<li>(19th Mar, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.3pre1 available for download</em>
- <p>
- This is a preview release of the Samba 3.0.3 code base and
- is provided for testing only. This release is <b>not</b> intended
- for production servers. However, there have
- been several bug fixes and new features added since 3.0.2a that we feel it is
- important to make it available to the Samba community for wider testing.
- The <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
- can be found on Samba mirrors. <a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS
- for RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, and Fedora Core 1</a> are currently available. Packages for other
- platforms will become available as their are provided by volunteers. The
- <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3.0.3pre1.txt">full release notes</a> are
- available on-line as well.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-
<ul>
<li>(19th Mar, 2004) <em>Samba 3 wins Innovation Award by German Magazine</em>
<p>
</ul>
-<ul>
-<li>(13th Feb, 2004) <em>Did you forget the flowers again? Samba 3.0.2a now available for download</em>
- <p>
- A minor patch release for the 3.0.2 code base is now available
- for download from samba.org.
-
- <p>
- Thanks once again to everyone who donated time, code,
- and testing resources to make this release possible.
- The <a href="/samba/ftp/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
- can be found on Samba mirrors. RPMS for several platforms
- are available in the <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary_Packages</a>
- download area. The
- <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.2a.html">full release notes</a> are
- available on-line as well.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<ul>
-<li>(9th Feb, 2004) <em>Happy Valentine's Day -- Samba 3.0.2 now available for download</em>
- <p>
- The second patch release of the Samba 3.0 code base is now available
- for download from samba.org.
-
- <p>
- <em>Security Announcement:</em> It has been confirmed that previous versions of Samba 3.0 are
- susceptible to a password initialization bug that could grant an
- attacker unauthorized access to a user account created by the
- mksmbpasswd.sh shell script. Samba administrators not wishing
- to upgrade to the current version should download the 3.0.2
- release, build the pdbedit tool, and run<br>
-
- <pre>root# pdbedit-3.0.2 --force-initialized-passwords</pre>
-
- <p>
- This will disable all accounts not possessing a valid password
- (e.g. the password field has been set a string of X's).
-
- <p>
- Samba servers running 3.0.2 are not vulnerable to this bug
- regardless of whether or not pdbedit has been used to sanitize
- the passdb backend.
-
- <p>
- Thanks once again to everyone who donated time, code,
- and testing resources to make this release possible.
- The <a href="/samba/ftp/">source code and GnuPG signatures</a>
- can be found on Samba mirrors. RPMS for several platforms
- are available in the <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary_Packages</a>
- download area. The
- <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.2.html">full release notes</a> are
- available on-line as well.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<ul>
-<li>(9th Jan, 2004) <em>SambaXP call for papers</em>
- <p>
- As the last two sambaXP conferences in Göttingen have
- been a great success, it is happening again this year
- from April 5th to 7th. The first day will be a tutorial
- by John Terpstra, the second and third days will be covered by
- talks. We have now opened the
- <a href="http://sambaxp.org/news/PM-20040109.html">call for papers</a>
- until February 14th. Please submit your talk proposals.
- Technical as well as user talks/reports are welcome.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
-<li>(9th Jan, 2004) <em>New Samba Team member -- Stefan Metzmacher</em>
- <p>
- We are excited to welcome Stefan Metzmacher (a.k.a. metze)
- as part of the core Samba development team. Metze has been
- a large contributor in the past in several areas of Samba
- such as the quota system for 3.0, account storage functionality,
- the Samba's generic loadable module support, and most recently
- has been working functionality in the samba4 cvs tree.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<ul>
-<li>(31th Oct, 2003) <em>The Samba Team announces The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em>
- <p>
- The Samba-HOWTO-Collection is now available in book form and is known as
- <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0131453556/qid=1066665885/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-7153927-8348145?v=glance&s=books">
- The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</a>, Editors: John H Terpstra and Jelmer R Vernooij, Publisher:
- <a href="http://www.phptr.com/perens">Prentice Hall PTR,</a> ISBN 0-13-145355-6.
- The book may be obtained from your nearest technical book store. If you are a Windows network administrator, a
- UNIX system administrator, or a Samba user, this book contains collected knowledge, tips, and techniques from
- hundreds of experienced Samba administrators that can help you to make your users happier with their Samba and
- Windows CIFS/SMB network environment. It contains many real world problems and solutions that have been
- harvested from the Samba mailing list over the past years.
- <p>
- The book gives attribution for materials contributed, but the really valuable documentation came from Samba
- users who took the effort to tell others about their experiences. So to all contributors we just want to say
- "Thank-You!" - keep the information coming.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
<ul>
<li>(16th Oct, 2003) <em>Tests by ITWEEK show "Samba 3 runs rings around Windows Server 2003 in file serving performance"</em>
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