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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
12 <p>Please read these <a href="download.html#verify">instructions on how
13 to verify the GPG signature for Samba releases</a>.
16 <b>Latest Samba 3.0 security release:</b> Samba 3.0.5
17 <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.5.tar.gz">gzipped</a>
18 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.5.html">release notes</a>
19 <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.5.tar.asc">signature</a><br>
21 <b>Latest Samba 2.2 security release:</b> Samba 2.2.10
22 <a href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.10.tar.gz">gzipped</a>
23 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.10.html">release notes</a>
24 <a href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.10.tar.asc">signature</a><br>
31 <li>(22nd Jul, 2004) <em>Security Release - Samba 2.2.10 and 3.0.5 Available for Download</em>
32 <p>Two potential buffer overruns have been discovered in Samba >= 3.0.2
33 <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/">CAN-2004-0600,CAN-2004-0686</a>).
34 One of these issues, CAN-2004-0686, also affects Samba 2.2.x.
35 Samba administrators are encouraged to review the <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.5.html">3.0.5</a>
36 and <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.10.html">2.2.10</a> release notes
37 and upgrade any affected servers.
38 Samba 3.0.5 and 2.2.10 are identical to the previous release in each
39 respective series with the exception of fixing these issues.
40 Samba 3.0.5rc1 has been removed from the download area on Samba.org
41 and 3.0.6rc2 will be available later this week.</br>
43 <p>The 3.0.5 and 2.2.10 releases <a href="/samba/ftp/">are available for download</a>
44 including the gpg signatures of the uncompressed tarballs. <a
45 href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary packages for various platforms</a>
46 will be available following the initial release.
51 <li>(22nd Jul, 2004) <em>End of Life for Samba 2.2 Announced</em>
52 <p>October 1, 2004 has been designated as the end-of-life (EOL)
53 for the Samba 2.2 codebase. Samba 2.2 has been in maintenance
54 mode since the release of v3.0.0 last September. With this announcement
55 it is being officially announced that there will be no further
56 2.2 releases (including security fixes) following the October 1 deadline.
57 All Samba administrators are encouraged to upgrade aging Samba 2.x servers
64 <li>(16th Jun, 2004) <em>Welcome new Samba Team member Vance Lankhaar</em>
65 <p>Vance is joining the Samba Team as maintainer of the <a
66 href="http://build.samba.org">build farm</a>. Vance has been
67 around Samba for a while now. He has previous contributions
68 to the build farm and has worked on Samba's documentation, and though
69 he didn't consider himself a C programmer at the time, he did build
70 the 'build options' support for smbd. We are glad to welcome Vance
77 <li>(25th May, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.5pre1 Available for Download</em>
78 <p>The first preview release of Samba 3.0.5 is now available for
79 download in <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
80 The <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
81 There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.4 release that
82 we feel are important to make available to the Samba community
83 for wider testings. This release is <b>not</b> intended for production
84 servers. Use at your own risk. Please refer to the <a
85 href="/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3-0-5pre1.txt">Release Notes</a> for
86 descriptions of the exact changes.
88 <P><b>ATTENTION! NEW BEHAVIOR!</b>
90 <p>Beginning with Samba 3.0.5pre1, clients supporting the UNIX
91 extensions to the CIFS protocol can create symlinks to
92 absolute paths which <em>will be followed</em> by the server. This
93 functionality has been requested in order to correctly support
94 certain applications when the user's home directory is mounted
95 using some type of CIFS client (e.g. the cifsvfs in the Linux
98 <p>If this behavior is not acceptable for your production environment,
99 you can set <a href="/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html">wide
100 links = no</a> in the specific share declaration in
101 the server's smb.conf. Be aware that disabling wide link support
102 out of a share in Samba may impact the server's performance due
103 to the fact that smbd will now have to check each path additional
104 times before traversing it.
106 <p><a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS for RedHat 8/9
107 and Fedora Core 1</a> can also be downloaded.
111 <a href="whatsnew/">older news</a>
116 <a href="/samba/tshirt.html">Samba T-shirts and mugs</a>
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119 <a href="/samba/tshirt.html">are available!</a>
123 <p align="center"><em>Please use the closest <A HREF="/samba/">mirror
124 site</A> for these web pages. The popularity of Samba puts a strain on
125 our network. By using a mirror site you can do your bit to reduce the
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