The first stable release of Samba 3.0 is available
Olaf Frączyk
olaf at cbk.poznan.pl
Thu Sep 25 08:35:10 GMT 2003
Congratulations !
Regards,
Olaf Fraczyk
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 07:03, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> [ and there was great rejoicing among the masses! And a
> tiny voice squeeked, "See, I told you they would get
> it out before the Linux 2.6 kernel" ]
>
> The Samba Team is proud to announce the availability of the
> first official release of the Samba 3.0 code base.
>
> Major new features:
> - -------------------
>
> 1) Active Directory support. Samba 3.0 is now 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 default filename mangling system.
>
> 5) A new "net" command has been added. It is somewhat similar to
> the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan to replace
> numerous other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with subcommands
> in "net".
>
> 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 module support for passdb backends and character
> sets.
>
> 9) New default dual-daemon winbindd support 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.
>
> 14) Full support for client and server SMB signing to ensure
> compatibility with default Windows 2003 security settings.
>
> 15) Improvement of ACL mapping features based on code donated by
> Andreas Grünbacher.
>
> The source code can be downloaded from :
>
> http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/
>
> The uncompressed tarball and patch file have been signed
> using GnuPG. The Samba public key is available at
>
> http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-pubkey.asc
>
> Binary packages are available at
>
> http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/
>
> A simplified version of the CVS log of updates since 3.0.0rc4
> can be found in the the download directory under the name
> ChangeLog-3.0.0rc4-3.0.0. The release notes are available
> on-line at
>
> http://www.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0.html
>
> Please file any bugs you find in this release at
>
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/
>
> As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
>
> --Enjoy
> The Samba Team
>
>
>
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