Download Samba 3.0.23

After four months of hard work, version 3.0.23 of Samba was released the day before yesterday. This program runs on Unix-, BSD- and Linux-based servers and is able to provide file and/or printer services to Windows clients via the Common Internet File System protocol, or CIFS. Extensive documentation, including practical so-called HowTo’s can be found on this page are being found. The complete release notes are up this page This is a summary of the most important changes:

New features in 3.0.23 include:

• Improved ‘make test’
• New offline mode in winbindd
• New Kerberos support for pam_winbind.so
• New handling of unmapped users and groups
• New non-root share management tools
• Improved support for local and BUILTIN groups
• Winbind IDMAP integration with RFC2307 schema objects supported by Windows 2003 R2
• Rewritten ‘net ads join’ to mimic Windows XP without requiring administrative rights to join a domain

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