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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
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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
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13 to verify the GPG signature for Samba releases</a>.
16 <b>Latest Samba 2.2 release:</b> Samba 2.2.9
17 <a href="/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-2.2.9.tar.gz">gzipped</a>
18 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.9.html">release notes</a>
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21 <b>Latest Samba 3.0 release:</b> Samba 3.0.4
22 <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.4.tar.gz">gzipped</a>
23 <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.4.html">release notes</a>
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31 <li>(8th Jul, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.5rc1 Available for Download</em>
32 <p>The first release candidate of Samba 3.0.5 is now available for
33 download in <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/samba-3.0.5rc1.tar.gz">gzipped
34 format</a>. The <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/samba-3.0.5rc1.tar.asc">GPG
35 signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
36 There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.4 release that
37 we feel are important to make available to the Samba community
38 for wider testings. This release is <b>not</b> intended for production
39 servers. Use at your own risk. Please refer to the <a
40 href="/samba/ftp/rc/WHATSNEW-3-0-5rc1.txt">Release Notes</a> for
41 descriptions of the exact changes.
43 <p><a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS for RedHat 8/9
44 and Fedora Core 1/2</a> can be also be downloaded.
50 <li>(16 June 2004) <em>Welcome new Samba Team member Vance Lankhaar</em>
51 <p>Vance is joining the Samba Team as maintainer of the <a
52 href="http://build.samba.org">build farm</a>. Vance has been
53 around Samba for a while now. He has previous contributions
54 to the build farm and has worked on Samba's documentation, and though
55 he didn't consider himself a C programmer at the time, he did build
56 the 'build options' support for smbd. We are glad to welcome Vance
63 <li>(25th May, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.5pre1 Available for Download</em>
64 <p>The first preview release of Samba 3.0.5 is now available for
65 download in <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
66 The <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
67 There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.4 release that
68 we feel are important to make available to the Samba community
69 for wider testings. This release is <b>not</b> intended for production
70 servers. Use at your own risk. Please refer to the <a
71 href="/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3-0-5pre1.txt">Release Notes</a> for
72 descriptions of the exact changes.
74 <P><b>ATTENTION! NEW BEHAVIOR!</b>
76 <p>Beginning with Samba 3.0.5pre1, clients supporting the UNIX
77 extensions to the CIFS protocol can create symlinks to
78 absolute paths which <em>will be followed</em> by the server. This
79 functionality has been requested in order to correctly support
80 certain applications when the user's home directory is mounted
81 using some type of CIFS client (e.g. the cifsvfs in the Linux
84 <p>If this behavior is not acceptable for your production environment,
85 you can set <a href="/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html">wide
86 links = no</a> in the specific share declaration in
87 the server's smb.conf. Be aware that disabling wide link support
88 out of a share in Samba may impact the server's performance due
89 to the fact that smbd will now have to check each path additional
90 times before traversing it.
92 <p><a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS for RedHat 8/9
93 and Fedora Core 1</a> can be also be downloaded.
98 <li>(8th May, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.4 and 2.2.9 Available for Download</em>
99 <p>The latest patch release of the 3.0 code base, Samba 3.0.4,
100 is available for download in <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.4.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
101 The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.4.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
102 This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is
103 the version that production Samba servers should be running for all
104 current bug-fixes. There have been several issues fixed since
105 the 3.0.3 release, the most visible of which is the problem with user
106 password changes after applying the Microsoft security hotfix described
107 in KB828741 to Windows NT 4.0/200x/XP clients. Please
108 refer to the <a href="whatsnew/samba-3.0.4.html">Release Notes</a> for
109 descriptions of the exact changes and new features.
111 <p>Samba 2.2.9 is the latest stable release of the Samba 2.2
112 code base. This is a maintenance release of Samba 2.2.8a to
113 address the problem with user password changes after applying
114 the Microsoft hotfix described in KB828741 to Windows NT
115 4.0/200x/XP clients. No other changes have been applied since
116 Samba 2.2.8a. There are no further Samba 2.2.x releases planned
117 at this time. Samba 2.2.9 can be downloaded in <a
118 href="/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.9.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
119 The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.9.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is
120 for the uncompressed tarball. The <a
121 href="whatsnew/samba-2.2.9.html">release notes</a> are available on-line.
123 <p>Pre-built packages of Samba 3.0.4 and 2.2.9 can be downloaded from the
124 <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary_Packages</a> directory
127 <p>If you are looking for bzip2 versions of the tarballs, please <a
128 href="/samba/ftp/README-BZIP2">read this note</a>.
134 <li>(26th Apr, 2004) <em>SambaXP 2004 A Success</em>
135 <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>
136 <p>Slides are available from three of the talks <a href="/samba/ftp/slides/sambaxp04/">here</a>.</p>
137 <p>More to come from the conference when it becomes available.</p>
142 <li>(25th Apr, 2004) <em>Samba Development Changes to Subversion</em>
143 <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>
149 <li>(9th Apr, 2004) <em>The Samba Team announces the Samba-3 by Example Book</em>
151 Tech book publisher Prentice Hall PTR announces that Samba-Team member John H.
152 Terpstra's latest book, <em>Samba-3 By Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment</em>
153 (ISBN 0131472216), is now available at Amazon.com and direct from the publisher at
154 www.informit.com/terpstra and at bookstores nationwide. <em>Samba-3 By Example</em>
155 is the companion follow-up book to <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em>
156 (ISBN 0131453556), which was co-edited by John H. Terpstra and fellow Samba-Team member
159 <em>Samba-3 By Example</em> was written in response to demand for real-world worked
160 examples of Samba-3 configurations. A CD-ROM included within the book contains all
161 examples of configuration files, scripts, and tools covered in the book. This CD-ROM
162 also has the binary and source packages for SuSE and Red Hat Linux products.
164 Prentice Hall PTR is pleased to announce that the full source of both books,
165 <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em> and the new publication
166 <em>Samba-3 by Example</em> have been posted to Samba.Org samba-docs public code tree.
167 All books in the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series are published under the OPL.
169 For more information see: <a href="http://www.informit.com/terpstra">InformIT</a> or
170 <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>.
171 The PDF and HTML versions of Samba-3 by Example (The Samba Guide) will appear on the
172 Samba web site by April 14th under <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/docs">the documentation</a>
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