Software Update: Samba 2.2.7a

A new version of Samba has been released. With Samba you can emulate a Windows network on Linux or Unix, for the benefit of a file server or domain controller. This version, 2.2.7a, mainly fixes bugs related to large files (>2GB) and is recommended for all production servers.

The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 2.2.7a.

This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version that all production Samba servers should be running for all current bug fixes. The primary reason for this release is to correct problems with large file (>2Gb) support. Please see the “Changes…” section for more details.

Changes since 2.2.7
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See the cvs log for SAMBA_2_2 for more details

• Fix for smbclient reporting negative file sizes on dir command and negative statistics being reported when using put or get on large files.
• Fix bug in determination of allocation size
• Fix 64bit size problems which prevented copying of files larger than 2 GBytes.
• Fix for xcopy /s problem with old DOS clients not sending correct attributes on subsequent SMBsearch calls.
• Fix bug in call to standard_sub_advanced giving a 0 length. This fixes the string overflow in string_sub errors.
• Correctly handle querygroup rpcclient command
• fix broken incremental tar in smbtar command

[break] The source code and binaries are here to find.