Samba provides seamless integration of file and print services for SMB and CIFS clients. This makes it possible, for example, to share files stored in a Unix environment via a network with computers that use the Windows operating system. Version 3.0.1 has recently been released and you can read the changes in the changelog† The release notes let us know the following:
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. Some of the more common bugs in 3.0.0 addressed in the release include:
- Substitution problems with smb.conf variables.
- Errors in return codes which caused some applications to fail to open files.
- General Protection Faults on Windows 2000/XP clients using Samba point-n-print features.
- Several miscellaneous crash bugs.
- Access problems when enumerating group mappings are stored in an LDAP Directory.
- Several common SWAT bugs when writing changes to smb.conf.
- Internal inconsistencies when ‘winbind use default domain = yes’
| Version number | 3.0.1 |
| Operating systems | Linux, BSD, Linux x86, Solaris, UNIX |
| Website | samba |
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| License type | GPL |