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Chapter 1. General Information

Table of Contents

Where can I get it?
What do the version numbers mean?
What platforms are supported?
How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?

Where can I get it?

-The Samba suite is available at the samba website. -

What do the version numbers mean?

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Chapter 1. General Information

What do the version numbers mean?

It is not recommended that you run a version of Samba with the word "alpha" in its name unless you know what you are doing and are willing to do some debugging. Many, many people just get the latest @@ -40,11 +37,11 @@ The above system means that whenever someone looks at the samba ftp site they will be able to grab the highest numbered release without an alpha in the name and be sure of getting the current recommended version. -

What platforms are supported?

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What platforms are supported?

Many different platforms have run Samba successfully. The platforms most widely used and thus best tested are Linux and SunOS.

At time of writing, there is support (or has been support for in earlier versions): -

A/UX 3.0
AIX
Altos Series 386/1000
Amiga
Apollo Domain/OS sr10.3
BSDI
B.O.S. (Bull Operating System)
Cray, Unicos 8.0
Convex
DGUX.
DNIX.
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Intergraph.
Linux with/without shadow passwords and quota
LYNX 2.3.0
MachTen (a unix like system for Macintoshes)
Motorola 88xxx/9xx range of machines
NetBSD
NEXTSTEP Release 2.X, 3.0 and greater (including OPENSTEP for Mach).
OS/2 using EMX 0.9b
OSF1
QNX 4.22
RiscIX.
RISCOs 5.0B
SEQUENT.
SCO (including: 3.2v2, European dist., OpenServer 5)
SGI.
SMP_DC.OSx v1.1-94c079 on Pyramid S series
SONY NEWS, NEWS-OS (4.2.x and 6.1.x)
SUNOS 4
SUNOS 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 (Solaris 2.2, 2.3, and '2.4 and later')
Sunsoft ISC SVR3V4
SVR4
System V with some berkely extensions (Motorola 88k R32V3.2).
ULTRIX.
UNIXWARE
UXP/DS

How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?

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A/UX 3.0
AIX
Altos Series 386/1000
Amiga
Apollo Domain/OS sr10.3
BSDI
B.O.S. (Bull Operating System)
Cray, Unicos 8.0
Convex
DGUX.
DNIX.
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Intergraph.
Linux with/without shadow passwords and quota
LYNX 2.3.0
MachTen (a unix like system for Macintoshes)
Motorola 88xxx/9xx range of machines
NetBSD
NEXTSTEP Release 2.X, 3.0 and greater (including OPENSTEP for Mach).
OS/2 using EMX 0.9b
OSF1
QNX 4.22
RiscIX.
RISCOs 5.0B
SEQUENT.
SCO (including: 3.2v2, European dist., OpenServer 5)
SGI.
SMP_DC.OSx v1.1-94c079 on Pyramid S series
SONY NEWS, NEWS-OS (4.2.x and 6.1.x)
SUNOS 4
SUNOS 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 (Solaris 2.2, 2.3, and '2.4 and later')
Sunsoft ISC SVR3V4
SVR4
System V with some berkely extensions (Motorola 88k R32V3.2).
ULTRIX.
UNIXWARE
UXP/DS

How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?

Look at the samba mailing list page