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4 <H2 ALIGN=CENTER>Welcome to the Samba web pages</H2>
6 <P>Samba is an <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/">Open Source</A>/<A
7 HREF="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">Free Software</A> suite
8 that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.
9 Samba is freely available under the <A HREF="docs/GPL.html">GNU General
13 <b>Latest Samba 2.2 release:</b> Samba 2.2.9
14 <a href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.9.tar.gz">gzipped</a>
15 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.9.html">release notes</a>
16 <a href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.9.tar.asc">signature</a><br>
18 <b>Latest Samba 3.0 release:</b> Samba 3.0.4
19 <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.4.tar.gz">gzipped</a>
20 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.4.html">release notes</a>
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28 <li>(16 June 2004) <em>Welcome new Samba Team member Vance Lankhaar</em>
29 <p>Vance is joining the Samba Team as maintainer of the <a href="http://build.samba.org">build farm</a>. Vance has been around Samba for a while now. He has previous contributions to the build farm and has worked on Samba's documentation, and though he didn't consider himself a C programmer at the time, he did build the 'build options' support for smbd. We are glad to welcome Vance to the team!</p>
35 <li>(25th May, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.5pre1 Available for Download</em>
36 <p>The first preview release of Samba 3.0.5 is now available for
37 download in <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
38 The <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
39 There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.4 release that
40 we feel are important to make available to the Samba community
41 for wider testings. This release is <b>not</b> intended for production
42 servers. Use at your own risk. Please refer to the <a
43 href="/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3-0-5pre1.txt">Release Notes</a> for
44 descriptions of the exact changes.
46 <P><b>ATTENTION! NEW BEHAVIOR!</b>
48 <p>Beginning with Samba 3.0.5pre1, clients supporting the UNIX
49 extensions to the CIFS protocol can create symlinks to
50 absolute paths which <em>will be followed</em> by the server. This
51 functionality has been requested in order to correctly support
52 certain applications when the user's home directory is mounted
53 using some type of CIFS client (e.g. the cifsvfs in the Linux
56 <p>If this behavior is not acceptable for your production environment,
57 you can set <a href="/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html">wide
58 links = no</a> in the specific share declaration in
59 the server's smb.conf. Be aware that disabling wide link support
60 out of a share in Samba may impact the server's performance due
61 to the fact that smbd will now have to check each path additional
62 times before traversing it.
64 <p><a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS for RedHat 8/9
65 and Fedora Core 1</a> can be also be downloaded.
70 <li>(8th May, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.4 and 2.2.9 Available for Download</em>
71 <p>The latest patch release of the 3.0 code base, Samba 3.0.4,
72 is available for download in <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.4.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
73 The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.4.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
74 This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is
75 the version that production Samba servers should be running for all
76 current bug-fixes. There have been several issues fixed since
77 the 3.0.3 release, the most visible of which is the problem with user
78 password changes after applying the Microsoft security hotfix described
79 in KB828741 to Windows NT 4.0/200x/XP clients. Please
80 refer to the <a href="whatsnew/samba-3.0.4.html">Release Notes</a> for
81 descriptions of the exact changes and new features.
83 <p>Samba 2.2.9 is the latest stable release of the Samba 2.2
84 code base. This is a maintenance release of Samba 2.2.8a to
85 address the problem with user password changes after applying
86 the Microsoft hotfix described in KB828741 to Windows NT
87 4.0/200x/XP clients. No other changes have been applied since
88 Samba 2.2.8a. There are no further Samba 2.2.x releases planned
89 at this time. Samba 2.2.9 can be downloaded in <a
90 href="/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.9.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
91 The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.9.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is
92 for the uncompressed tarball. The <a
93 href="whatsnew/samba-2.2.9.html">release notes</a> are available on-line.
95 <p>Pre-built packages of Samba 3.0.4 and 2.2.9 can be downloaded from the
96 <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary_Packages</a> directory
99 <p>If you are looking for bzip2 versions of the tarballs, please <a
100 href="/samba/ftp/README-BZIP2">read this note</a>.
106 <li>(29th Apr, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.3 Available for Download</em>
107 <p>The latest patch release of the 3.0 code base, Samba 3.0.3,
108 is available for download in both <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.3.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>
109 and <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.3.tar.bz2">bzip2 format</a>.
110 The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.3.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
111 This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is
112 the version that production Samba servers should be running for all
113 current bug-fixes. There have been several issues fixed since
114 the 3.0.2a release, and new features have been added as well. Please
115 refer to the <a href="whatsnew/samba-3.0.3.html">Release Notes</a> for
116 descriptions of the exact changes and new features.
118 <p>Pre-built packages can be downloaded from the
119 <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary_Packages</a> directory
126 <li>(29th Apr, 2004) <em>Welcome new Samba Team Member -- Deryck Hodge</em>
127 <p>We are glad to have Deryck join the Samba team as the new
128 maintainer of the web content on http://samba.org. In fact, he has
129 already been hard at work now for about a week.
136 <li>(26th Apr, 2004) <em>SambaXP 2004 A Success</em>
137 <p>SambaXP (<a href="http://www.sambaxp.org">www.sambaxp.org</a>), held in Göttingen, Germany April 5-7, was a success and a good time for all involved. Thirteen Samba Team members were present, leading ten talks and tutorials over the three days. <a href="http://www.sernet.de/">SerNet</a> did a great job as always of hosting. Thanks to everyone who worked hard to make the event the success that it was.</p>
138 <p>Slides are available from three of the talks <a href="/samba/ftp/slides/sambaxp04/">here</a>.</p>
139 <p>More to come from the conference when it becomes available.</p>
144 <li>(25th Apr, 2004) <em>Samba Development Changes to Subversion</em>
145 <p>On 4 April 2004, Samba development changed its version control system from CVS to Subversion. For more information on accessing Samba via Subversion see the Samba <a href="/samba/subversion.html">subversion page</a>. To download Subversion go to <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">subversion.tigris.org</a>.</p>
151 <li>(9th Apr, 2004) <em>The Samba Team announces the Samba-3 by Example Book</em>
153 Tech book publisher Prentice Hall PTR announces that Samba-Team member John H.
154 Terpstra's latest book, <em>Samba-3 By Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment</em>
155 (ISBN 0131472216), is now available at Amazon.com and direct from the publisher at
156 www.informit.com/terpstra and at bookstores nationwide. <em>Samba-3 By Example</em>
157 is the companion follow-up book to <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em>
158 (ISBN 0131453556), which was co-edited by John H. Terpstra and fellow Samba-Team member
161 <em>Samba-3 By Example</em> was written in response to demand for real-world worked
162 examples of Samba-3 configurations. A CD-ROM included within the book contains all
163 examples of configuration files, scripts, and tools covered in the book. This CD-ROM
164 also has the binary and source packages for SuSE and Red Hat Linux products.
166 Prentice Hall PTR is pleased to announce that the full source of both books,
167 <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em> and the new publication
168 <em>Samba-3 by Example</em> have been posted to Samba.Org samba-docs public code tree.
169 All books in the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series are published under the OPL.
171 For more information see: <a href="http://www.informit.com/terpstra">InformIT</a> or
172 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0131472216/qid%3D1077225188/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-8804968-9612156">Amazon.Com</a>.
173 The PDF and HTML versions of Samba-3 by Example (The Samba Guide) will appear on the
174 Samba web site by April 14th under <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/docs">the documentation</a>
181 <li>(19th Mar, 2004) <em>Samba 3 wins Innovation Award by German Magazine</em>
183 The German <a href="http://www.pc-professionell.de/">PC Professionell</a>
184 Magazine has awarded Samba 3 as the <em>Innovation of the years
185 2003/2004</em> in the category <em>Network</em>. Volker Lendecke has
186 accepted the award at the Magazine's CeBIT party.
192 <li>(16th Oct, 2003) <em>Tests by ITWEEK show "Samba 3 runs rings around Windows Server 2003 in file serving performance"</em>
194 Tests by the UK magazine <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk">ITWEEK</a> show
195 that an untuned Samba3 server outperforms an untuned Windows 2003 server on the
196 same hardware by a factor of <b>2.5 times</b>. The news article is <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk/News/1144312">here</a>
197 and the test results in graph form are <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk/ITWeek/itw_graph_1144289.jsp">here.</a>
202 <li>(19th Aug, 2003) <em>SCO use of Samba code under the GPL</em>
204 Over the past few months, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International, Inc.
205 a Linux distribution vendor) has been complaining about violations of its
206 Copyright works by the Linux kernel code.
208 Recently, Darl McBride, the Chief Executive Officer of SCO has been making
209 pejorative statements regarding the license used by the Linux kernel, the
210 GNU GPL. In a keynote speech he recently said:
213 "At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's
214 about destroying value."
217 In light of this, it is the depths of hypocrisy that at the same event
218 SCO also announced the incorporation of the Samba3 release into their
219 latest OpenServer product. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software
220 project that allows Linux and UNIX servers to interoperate with
221 Microsoft Windows clients. The reason for this is clear: Samba3 allows
222 Linux and UNIX servers to replace Microsoft Windows NT Domain
223 Controllers and will add great value to any Operating System which
224 includes it. However, Samba is also developed and distributed under
225 the GNU GPL license, in exactly the same manner as the Linux kernel
226 code that SCO has been criticizing for its lack of care in ownership
229 We observe that SCO is both attacking the GPL on the one hand and
230 benefiting from the GPL on the other hand. SCO can't have it both ways.
231 SCO has a clear choice: either pledge not to use any Open Source/Free
232 Software in any of their products, or actively participate in the Open
233 Source/Free Software movement and reap the benefits. For SCO to continue to
234 use Open Source/Free Software while attacking others for using it is the
235 epitome of hypocrisy.
237 The strength of Open Source/Free Software is that it is available to
238 all without restrictions on fields of endeavor, as the Samba Team
239 believes the ability to freely use, modify and learn from software
240 code is one of the grounding principles of computer science, and a
241 basic freedom for all.
243 Because of this, we believe that the Samba Team must remain true to our
244 principles and our code must be freely available to use even in ways we
245 personally disapprove of.
247 Even when used by rank hypocrites like SCO.
252 Christopher R. Hertel,
254 Jean Francois Micouleau,
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278 <p align="center"><em>Please use the closest <A HREF="/samba/">mirror
279 site</A> for these web pages. The popularity of Samba puts a strain on
280 our network. By using a mirror site you can do your bit to reduce the
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