Samba 2.2.0 released !

[David W. Chapman Jr.]

ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/samba-2.2.0.tar.gz

that link worked for me.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Ferrell" <bferrell at microdisplay.com>
To: "Jeremy Allison" <jeremy at valinux.com>
Cc: <samba at samba.org>; "Samba technical" <samba-technical at samba.org>; "Samba
NTDOM" <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Samba 2.2.0 released !


> So... Are you actually gonna allow us to download it?  --
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>
>    Forbidden
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>     You don't have permission to access /samba/ftp/samba-2.2.0.tar.gz on
this
> server.
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>     Apache/1.3.9 Server at va.samba.org Port 80
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> :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
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> Jeremy Allison wrote:
>
> > The Samba Team is pleased to announce a new major release of Samba,
> > Samba 2.2.0.
> >
> > Samba 2.2.0 is available in source form from
> > samba.org and all of our mirror sites.
> >
> > Binary packages will be available shortly for many popular platforms.
> > Please check the main Web site or email announcements for details.
> >
> > If you have problems, or think you have found a bug please email
> > a report to :
> >
> >         samba at samba.org
> >
> > The WHATSNEW.txt file follows.
> >
> > As always, any bugs are our responsibility,
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >         The Samba Team.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >               WHATS NEW IN Samba 2.2.0
> >               ========================
> >
> > This is the official Samba 2.2.0 release. This version of Samba provides
> > the following new features and enhancements.
> >
> > Integration between Windows oplocks and NFS file opens (IRIX and Linux
> > 2.4 kernel only). This gives complete data and locking integrity between
> > Windows and UNIX file access to the same data files.
> >
> > Ability to act as an authentication source for Windows 2000 clients as
> > well as for NT4.x clients.
> >
> > Integration with the winbind daemon that provides a single
> > sign on facility for UNIX servers in Windows 2000/NT4 networks
> > driven by a Windows 2000/NT4 PDC. winbind is not included in
> > this release, it currently must be obtained separately. We are
> > committed to including winbind in a future Samba 2.2.x release.
> >
> > Support for native Windows 2000/NT4 printing RPCs. This includes
> > support for automatic printer driver download.
> >
> > Support for server supported Access Control Lists (ACLs).
> > This release contains support for the following filesystems:
> >
> >     Solaris 2.6+
> >     SGI Irix
> >     Linux Kernel with ACL patch from http://acl.bestbits.at
> >         Linux Kernel with XFS ACL support.
> >         Caldera/SCO UnixWare
> >         IBM AIX
> >         FreeBSD (with external patch)
> >
> > Other platforms will be supported as resources are
> > available to test and implement the encessary modules. If
> > you are interested in writing the support for a particular
> > ACL filesystem, please join the samba-technical mailing
> > list and coordinate your efforts.
> >
> > On PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) based systems - better
debugging
> > messages and encrypted password users now have access control verified
via
> > PAM - Note: Authentication still uses the encrypted password database.
> >
> > Rewritten internal locking semantics for more robustness.
> > This release supports full 64 bit locking semantics on all
> > (even 32 bit) platforms. SMB locks are mapped onto POSIX
> > locks (32 bit or 64 bit) as the underlying system allows.
> >
> > Conversion of various internal flat data structures to use
> > database records for increased performance and
> > flexibility.
> >
> > Support for acting as a MS-DFS (Distributed File System) server.
> >
> > Support for manipulating Samba shares using Windows client tools
> > (server manager). Per share security can be set using these tools
> > and Samba will obey the access restrictions applied.
> >
> > Samba profiling support (see below).
> >
> > Compile time option for enabling a (Virtual file system) VFS layer
> > to allow non-disk resources to be exported as Windows filesystems
> > (such as databases etc.).
> >
> > The documentation in this release has been updated and converted
> > from Yodl to DocBook 4.1. There are many new parameters since 2.0.7
> > and some defaults have changed.
> >
> > Profiling support.
> > ------------------
> > Support for collection of profile information. A shared
> > memory area has been created which contains counters for
> > the number of calls to and the amount of time spent in
> > various system calls and smb transactions. See the file
> > profile.h for a complete listing of the information
> > collected. Sample code for a samba pmda (collection agent
> > for Performance Co-Pilot) has been included in the pcp
> > directory.
> >
> > To enable the profile data collection code in samba, you
> > must compile samba with profile support (run configure with
> > the --with-profile option). On startup, collection of data
> > is disabled. To begin collecting data use the smbcontrol
> > program to turn on profiling (see the smbcontrol man page).
> > Profile information collection can be enabled for all smbd
> > processes or one or more selected processes. The profiling
> > data collected is the aggragate for all processes that have
> > profiling enabled.
> >
> > With samba compiled for profile data collection, you may see
> > a very slight degradation in performance even with profiling
> > collection turned off. On initial tests with NetBench on an
> > SGI Origin 200 server, this degradation was not measureable
> > with profile collection off compared to no profile collection
> > compiled into samba.
> >
> > With count profile collection enabled on all clients, the
> > degradation was less than 2%. With full profile collection
> > enabled on all clients, the degradation was about 8.5%.
> >
> > =====================================================================
> >
> > If you think you have found a bug please email a report to :
> >
> >         samba at samba.org
> >
> > As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >         The Samba Team.
> >
> > --
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Buying an operating system without source is like buying
> > a self-assembly Space Shuttle with no instructions.
> > --------------------------------------------------------
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