Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.
Latest Samba 2.2 release: Samba 2.2.8a (*security release*)
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Latest Samba 3.0 release: Samba 3.0.2a
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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 subversion page. To download Subversion go to subversion.tigris.org.
This is a release candidate snapshot of the Samba 3.0.3 code
base and should be considered for testing only. A release
candidate (RC) means that we are close to the final, stable
release and is provided for Quality Assurance (QA) purposes.
This release is not intended for production servers. Use
at your own risk.
However, there have been several bug fixes and new features
added since 3.0.2a that we feel it is
important to make it available to the Samba community for wider testing.
The source code and GnuPG signatures
can be found on Samba mirrors. RPMS
for RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, and Fedora Core 1 are currently available. Packages
for other platforms will become available as they are provided by volunteers. The
full release notes are
available online as well.
Tech book publisher Prentice Hall PTR announces that Samba-Team member John H. Terpstra's latest book, Samba-3 By Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment (ISBN 0131472216), is now available at Amazon.com and direct from the publisher at www.informit.com/terpstra and at bookstores nationwide. Samba-3 By Example is the companion follow-up book to The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide (ISBN 0131453556), which was co-edited by John H. Terpstra and fellow Samba-Team member Jelmer R. Vernooij.
Samba-3 By Example was written in response to demand for real-world worked examples of Samba-3 configurations. A CD-ROM included within the book contains all examples of configuration files, scripts, and tools covered in the book. This CD-ROM also has the binary and source packages for SuSE and Red Hat Linux products.
Prentice Hall PTR is pleased to announce that the full source of both books, The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide and the new publication Samba-3 by Example have been posted to Samba.Org samba-docs public code tree. All books in the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series are published under the OPL.
For more information see: InformIT or Amazon.Com. The PDF and HTML versions of Samba-3 by Example (The Samba Guide) will appear on the Samba web site by April 14th under the documentation page.
This is the second preview release of the Samba 3.0.3 code base and is provided for testing only. This release is not intended for production servers. However, there have been several bug fixes and new features added since 3.0.2a that we feel it is important to make it available to the Samba community for wider testing. The source code and GnuPG signatures can be found on Samba mirrors. RPMS for RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, and Fedora Core 1 will be available within 24 hours. Packages for other platforms will become available as they are provided by volunteers. The full release notes are available on-line as well.
The German PC Professionell Magazine has awarded Samba 3 as the Innovation of the years 2003/2004 in the category Network. Volker Lendecke has accepted the award at the Magazine's CeBIT party.
Tests by the UK magazine ITWEEK show that an untuned Samba3 server outperforms an untuned Windows 2003 server on the same hardware by a factor of 2.5 times. The news article is here and the test results in graph form are here.
Over the past few months, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International, Inc.
a Linux distribution vendor) has been complaining about violations of its
Copyright works by the Linux kernel code.
Recently, Darl McBride, the Chief Executive Officer of SCO has been making
pejorative statements regarding the license used by the Linux kernel, the
GNU GPL. In a keynote speech he recently said:
"At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value."
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