Glossy press release for Samba 1.9.18.

[Jeremy Allison]

For those who might require more polished release notes, here's
the text of the press release I sent out to the magazines :-).

Regards,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.

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Samba Team Announces Samba 1.9.18
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Canberra, Australia, January 1998 - The Samba Team is pleased to
announce version 1.9.18 of Samba, the leading file and print server 
suite for corporate network integration with Microsoft Windows (tm) 
clients. 


Speed and Internationalization Improvements.
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With this release, Samba becomes one of the fastest available SMB/CIFS 
file servers, out-performing many commercial alternatives. Samba now 
implements the opportunistic locking features of the SMB/CIFS protocol. 
This can improve file access performance by an order of magnitude over 
previous versions. Samba has been internally benchmarked as faster than 
commercially available SMB servers on the same hardware platforms.


Samba now provides for dynamic code page support, allowing easy roll-out
of servers within an international organization. Samba now allows
network
administrators to configure the way clients view internationalized
filenames
on a server-by-server basis.


Servers with multiple network interfaces are now fully supported by
Samba 
in the same way as Microsoft Windows NT (tm) servers, allowing network
administrators to easily load-balance client accesses over all available
bandwidth.


Samba also provides automatic downloading of printer drivers for
Microsoft
Windows 95 (tm) clients, allowing it to completely replace Microsoft
Windows
NT servers for both file and printer services.


Samba has no client license fees, and may be used without cost on any
compatible server operating system (most versions of UNIX).


Samba is the clear choice for robust, scalable, file and print services
for Microsoft Windows clients and is used by thousands of corporations
worldwide, as a mission-critical part of their networking
infrastructure.

For a list of the companies that use Samba, open your browser on the
URL:

http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba/survey/

To purchase commercial support for Samba, open your browser on the URL:

ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/Support.txt



About the Samba File and Print Server program.
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Designed to service any Server Message Block (SMB) file sharing client, 
Samba is compatible with all Microsoft Networking  clients including 
Windows 95 (tm), Windows NT (tm) Workstation and Server, Windows for 
Workgroups (tm), IBM OS/2 (tm), smbfs for Linux and Thursby Software 
Systems DAVE (tm) Macintosh SMB client.

Samba also functions as a logon server for Windows 95 and supports
roving 
profiles. Samba can provide support for over 2,000 clients
simultaneously
per samba server and many Samba servers of this scale can work together.

Samba is distinguished by its scalability, speed and flexibility. It is
freely distributed with source code, and has high-quality support.
Over a hundred specialist support companies worldwide offer commercial
support for Samba, which is also supported by copious Internet 
resources and a mailing list with ten thousand subscribers.

Samba is developed by a team of international developers, in the same
manner as the Linux operating system, and is shipped as standard with
most versions of Linux.

With many hundreds of thousands of installed systems around the world, 
Samba is making it possible for many kinds of systems to share files 
that have been incompatible until now.

Samba implements the Common Internet Filesystem protocol, the Internet
Engineering Task Force draft protocol for extending SMB to the Internet.
Samba keeps pace with CIFS developments. See

http://samba.anu.edu.au/cifs.

Samba runs on UNIX (tm) and near clones from over 30 vendors, besides
IBM MVS (tm), Digital Equipment VMS (tm), Stratos VOS (tm), all versions 
of IBM OS/2 Warp (tm), Novell Netware (tm), Amiga OS (tm) and others. 
Most corporate data servers are supported, besides countless small 
networks running less powerful operating systems.

Windows NT, Windows 95, Linux, OS/2 Warp, Windows for Workgroups come
with SMB network file systems by default. Windows 3.1, DOS, AIX and
others
have equivalent add-ons. Different SMB clients have different extensions
and
different bugs. Samba goes to great lengths to accommodate all clients
that
are in use.


More Information and Downloading
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For more information on Samba see 

        http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba

Demand for Samba is very high. For a faster download and to minimize
Internet traffic over the period following this release, please use a
Samba mirror site. The list of mirror sites is contained in

        ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/MIRRORS.txt. 

The official master ftp location is

        ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/samba-latest.tar.gz

Some of the products mentioned in this document are registered
trademarks of other companies. The samba-bugs at samba.anu.edu.au address
referred to in this release should not be used for general enquiries or
support requests. See the web pages for information about the general
Samba mailing list and a listing of commercial support providers.

Thanks
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This release of Samba was made possible with the generous help of the
following companies :

Aquasoft Pty Ltd.       : http://www.aquasoft.com.au
Digital Equipment Corp. : http://www.digital.com
NEC Technologies (UK)   : http://www.nec.com
Red Hat Software.       : http://www.redhat.com
Silicon Graphics, Inc.  : http://www.sgi.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc.  : http://www.sun.com
Whistle Communications  : http://www.whistle.com

Please note that this does not imply endorsement of Samba by the above
named companies.


Samba Team members
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The Samba Team are :

Jeremy Allison  - Whistle Communications
Paul Ashton     -
Paul Blackman   - University of Canberra
John Blair      - University of Alabama
Dave Fenwick    - Asset Software
Chris Hertel    - University of Minnisota
Simon Hyde      -
Peter Kelly     - ETS
Luke Leighton   - Creative Programmer, Developer and Consultant
Eckert Meyer    - Technical University of Braunschweig
Richard Sharpe  - NS Computer Software
Dan Shearer     - University of South Australia
John Terpstra   - Aquasoft Pty Ltd.
Andrew Tridgell - Australian National University
Volker Lendeke  - Service Network, GmbH.

Copying
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Unrestricted reproduction rights of this press release are granted, so
long as it remains clear that: 

         i) Samba is copyright by the Samba Team, 1992-1997
        ii) Samba is made available freely under the widely-used 
            GNU public license. A copy of this is at 

                ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/COPYING

            This license encourages commercial use and modification. The
            only restriction is that all source code incorporating Samba
            must always be freely available
       iii) The contact for all issues related to intellectual
            property rights for Samba is samba-bugs at samba.anu.edu.au