Download Samba 3.2

An update of Samba was released on Tuesday in the form of version 3.2. This program runs on Unix, BSD and Linux servers and is capable of providing file and/or printer services to Windows clients via the so-called Common Internet File System protocol. Extensive documentation, including practical how-to’s, can be downloaded this page are being found. Version 3.2 is the first release of Samba to be released under version 3 of the gpl license. The most important changes in this release are listed below:

File Serving:

• Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC interfaces.
• Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS.
• Introduction of a registry-based configuration system.
• Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
• Experimental support for file serving clusters.
• Support for IPv6 in the server, and client tools and libraries.
• Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs.
• Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server.
• Support for Vista clients authenticating through Kerberos.

Winbind and Active Directory Integration:

• Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts and one-way domain trusts.
• Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS lookups.
• Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls.
• Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy.
• New LGPL Winbind client library (libwbclient.so).
• Support for establishing interdomain trust relationships with Windows 2008.

joining:

• New NetApi library for domain join related queries (libnetapi.so) and example GTK+ Domain join gui.
• New client and server support for remotely joining and unjoining Domains.
• Support for joining into Windows 2008 domains.

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