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   2   <title>Samba - opening windows to a wider world</title>
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   5 <h1>Opening Windows</h1>
   6 <h2>to a Wider World</h2>
   7
   8 <p>
   9         <b>Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.</b>
  10         </p>
  11 <p>
  12         Samba is <a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html" target="_blank">Free Software</a> licensed under
  13         the <a href="/samba/docs/GPL.html">GNU General Public License</a>, the Samba project is a member
  14         of the <a href="http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/" target="_blank">Software Freedom Conservancy</a>.
  15 </p>
  16 <p>
  17         Since <a href="/samba/docs/10years.html">1992</a>, Samba has provided secure, stable and fast
  18         file and print services for all clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol, such as all versions of DOS
  19         and Windows, OS/2, Linux and many others.
  20 </p>
  21 <p>
  22         Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix Servers and Desktops into
  23         Active Directory environments using the winbind daemon.
  24 </p>
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  26 <div class="mainBox" id="mainBoxReleases">
  27         <h3>Releases</h3>
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  29                 <h5>Current stable release</h5>
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  31
  32                 <h5>Release History</h5>
  33                 <p>
  34                         <a href="/samba/history/">Versions &amp; Notes</a>
  35                 </p>
  36
  37                 <h5>Maintenance</h5>
  38                 <p>
  39                         <a href="/samba/patches/">Patches</a> &middot;
  40                         <a href="/samba/history/security.html">Security Updates</a> &middot;
  41                         <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-pubkey.asc">GPG Key</a>
  42                 </p>
  43         </div>
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  45 </div>
  46 <div class="mainBox" id="mainBoxBeyondSamba">
  47         <h3>Beyond Samba</h3>
  48         <div class="mainBoxContent">
  49                 <h5>Find help to make Samba fly!</h5>
  50                 <p>
  51                         You won't be alone with your problem
  52                 </p>
  53                 <ul>
  54                         <li><a href="/samba/support/">Commercial Support</a></li>
  55                         <li><a href="/samba/vendors/">Samba-related Products</a></li>
  56                         <li><a href="http://www.sambaxp.org/" target="_blank">Samba eXPerience</a></li>
  57                         <li><a href="http://ctdb.samba.org/">Clustering with CTDB</a></li>
  58                 </ul>
  59         </div>
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  61 </div>
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  68                                                                 <h4>Latest News</h4>
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  72
  73                                                                 <p id="furtherNews">
  74                                                                         <a href="/samba/latest_news.html">Further News &gt;&gt;</a>
  75                                                                 </p>
  76                                                         </div>
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  78                                                 </div>
  79                                                 <div class="specialBox" id="specialBoxInternational">
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  81                                                                 <h4>International Sites</h4>
  82
  83                                                             <p>
  84                                                                 <span class="label">Deutsch:</span><a href="http://samba.sernet.de/" target="_blank">samba.sernet.de</a>
  85                                                                 <span class="label">Hebrew:</span><a href="http://linux.israel.net/" target="_blank">linux.israel.net</a>
  86                                                                 </p>
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  92                                                                 <h4>Related Sites</h4>
  93
  94                                                             <ul>
  95                                                                 <li><a href="http://linux-cifs.samba.org/">linux-cifs.samba.org</a></li>
  96                                                                 <li><a href="http://survey.samba.org/">survey.samba.org</a></li>
  97                                                                 <li><a href="http://talloc.samba.org/">talloc.samba.org</a></li>
  98                                                                 <li><a href="http://tevent.samba.org/">tevent.samba.org</a></li>
  99                                                                 <li><a href="http://tdb.samba.org/">tdb.samba.org</a></li>
 100                                                                 <li><a href="http://ldb.samba.org/">ldb.samba.org</a></li>
 101                                                                 <li><a href="http://jcifs.samba.org/">jcifs.samba.org</a></li>
 102                                                                 <li><a href="http://rsync.samba.org/">rsync.samba.org</a></li>
 103                                                                 <li><a href="http://ccache.samba.org/">ccache.samba.org</a></li>
 104                                                                 <li><a href="http://distcc.samba.org/">distcc.samba.org</a></li>
 105                                                                 <li><a href="http://ppp.samba.org/">ppp.samba.org</a></li>
 106                                                                 </ul>
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 115                                                                 <h5>Think Samba</h5>
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 119                                                                 <h5>Get Samba</h5>
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 123                                                                 <h5>Learn Samba</h5>
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 133                                                                 <h5>Hack Samba</h5>
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