Software Update: Samba 3.0 Beta 1

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The makers of Samba let us know that a beta release of the SMB server Samba has been available since yesterday. The Samba Team has given this release 3.0.0 as version number. One of the major changes in this release is the improved support for the Microsoft Active Directory. Furthermore, the changelog states the following:

Major new features:

1) Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos.

2) Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte and UNICODE character sets.

3) New authentication system. The internal authentication system has been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal, but the new auth system is also very configurable.

4) New filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps persistently. This needs lots of testing.

5) New “net” command. A new “net” command has been added. It is somewhat similar to the “net” command in windows. Eventually we plan to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with subcommands in “net”, at the moment only a few things are implemented.

6) Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This improves error handling a lot.

7) Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing printer attributes in active directory

8) New loadable RPC modules

9) New dual-daemon winbindd support (-B) for better performance

10) Support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba domain and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs

11) Support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0 domain controllers

12) Initial support for a distributed Winbind architecture using an LDAP directory for storing SID to uid/gid mappings

13) Major updates to the Samba documentation tree.

Version number 3.0 Beta 1
Operating systems Linux, Linux x86, Solaris, UNIX
Website samba
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License type GPL
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