Samba 3.0.21rc2 Available for Download

Sat Dec 3 01:08:37 GMT 2005

This is a release candidate of the 3.0.21 code base and is
provided for testing purposes only.   While this snapshot
is *not* intended for production servers, we do believe that
this will become the 3.0.21 final release.  Your testing
and feedback is greatly appreciated.  If all goes well, you
should see the final 3.0.21 release within 2 weeks.

Common bugs fixed in 3.0.21 include:

~  o Missing groups in a user's token when logging in via kerberos
~  o Incompatibilities with newer MS Windows hotfixes and
~    embedded OS platforms
~  o Portability and crash bugs.
~  o Performance issues in winbindd.

New features introduced in Samba 3.0.21 include:

~  o Complete NTLMv2 support by consolidating authentication
~    mechanism used at the CIFS and RPC layers.
~  o The capability to manage Unix services using the Win32
~    Service Control API.
~  o The capability to view external Unix log files via the
~    Microsoft Event Viewer.
~  o New libmsrpc share library for application developers.
~  o Rewrite of CIFS oplock implementation.
~  o Performance Counter external daemon.
~  o Winbindd auto-detection query methods when communicating with
~    a domain controller.

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Download Details
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The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 157BC95E).  The source code can be downloaded
from:

	http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/rc/

The release notes (WHATSNEW-3-0-21rc2.txt) are available
in the same download directory as the source distribution.

Binary packages are available at

	http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/

Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/)

			--Enjoy
			The Samba Team
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