[Samba] Samba Version required for Win7 Clients

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:28 PM, csirt <csirteam at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2010/3/16 Zaeem Arshad <zaeem.arshad at gmail.com>
>
>> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:49 AM, csirt <csirteam at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > which version of Samba do i need, when i want to run Win 7 Clients ?
>> > At the moment i am running Samba version 3.0.28a with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
>> >
>> > regards
>>
>> I am using 3.4.3-41 without any issues.
>>
>> --
>> Zaeem
>>
>
> Hi,
> Now i am confused about the different tribes 3.3x, 3.4x. 3.5x of samba.
> I could not find something about it on samba.org.
> Which one i should go for ? What are the major-differences between the
> three?
>

3.3.12 or 3.4.7 are the best versions for production systems in my
opinion. 3.5 adds experimental smb2 support but I like to wait a few
months before running a new series in production.

3.4.X series added a rewrite of the printing code but this broke 64
bit printing until the 3.4.6 version.

John