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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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27 <li>(25th May, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.5pre1 Available for Download</em>
28 <p>The first preview release of Samba 3.0.5 is now available
29 download in <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
30 The <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
31 There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.4 release that
32 we feel are important to make available to the Samba community
33 for wider testings. This release is <b>not</b> intended for production
34 servers. Use at your own risk. Please refer to the <a
35 href="/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3-0-5pre1.txt">Release Notes</a> for
36 descriptions of the exact changes.
38 <b><em>ATTENTION! NEW BEHAVIOR!</em></b>
40 <p>Beginning with Samba 3.0.5pre1, clients supporting the UNIX
41 extensions to the CIFS protocol can create symlinks to
42 absolute paths which <b>will be followed</b> by the server. This
43 functionality has been requested in order to correctly support
44 certain applications when the user's home directory is mounted
45 using some type of CIFS client (e.g. the cifsvfs in the Linux
48 <p>If this behavior is not acceptable for your production environment
49 you can set <a href="/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html#WIDELINKIS">wide
50 links = no</a> in the specific share declaration in
51 the server's smb.conf. Be aware that disabling wide link support
52 out of a share in Samba may impact the server's performance due
53 to the fact that smbd will now have to check each path additional
54 times before traversing it.
56 <p><a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS for RedHat 8/9
57 and Fedora Core 1</a> can be also be downloaded.
62 <li>(8th May, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.4 and 2.2.9 Available for Download</em>
63 <p>The latest patch release of the 3.0 code base, Samba 3.0.4,
64 is available for download in <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.4.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
65 The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.4.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
66 This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is
67 the version that production Samba servers should be running for all
68 current bug-fixes. There have been several issues fixed since
69 the 3.0.3 release, the most visible of which is the problem with user
70 password changes after applying the Microsoft security hotfix described
71 in KB828741 to Windows NT 4.0/200x/XP clients. Please
72 refer to the <a href="whatsnew/samba-3.0.4.html">Release Notes</a> for
73 descriptions of the exact changes and new features.
75 <p>Samba 2.2.9 is the latest stable release of the Samba 2.2
76 code base. This is a maintenance release of Samba 2.2.8a to
77 address the problem with user password changes after applying
78 the Microsoft hotfix described in KB828741 to Windows NT
79 4.0/200x/XP clients. No other changes have been applied since
80 Samba 2.2.8a. There are no further Samba 2.2.x releases planned
81 at this time. Samba 2.2.9 can be downloaded in <a
82 href="/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.9.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
83 The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-2.2.9.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is
84 for the uncompressed tarball. The <a
85 href="whatsnew/samba-2.2.9.html">release notes</a> are available on-line.
87 <p>Pre-built packages of Samba 3.0.4 and 2.2.9 can be downloaded from the
88 <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary_Packages</a> directory
91 <p>If you are looking for bzip2 versions of the tarballs, please <a
92 href="/samba/ftp/README-BZIP2">read this note</a>.
98 <li>(29th Apr, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.3 Available for Download</em>
99 <p>The latest patch release of the 3.0 code base, Samba 3.0.3,
100 is available for download in both <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.3.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>
101 and <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.3.tar.bz2">bzip2 format</a>.
102 The <a href="/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.3.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
103 This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is
104 the version that production Samba servers should be running for all
105 current bug-fixes. There have been several issues fixed since
106 the 3.0.2a release, and new features have been added as well. Please
107 refer to the <a href="whatsnew/samba-3.0.3.html">Release Notes</a> for
108 descriptions of the exact changes and new features.
110 <p>Pre-built packages can be downloaded from the
111 <a href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary_Packages</a> directory
118 <li>(29th Apr, 2004) <em>Welcome new Samba Team Member -- Deryck Hodge</em>
119 <p>We are glad to have Deryck join the Samba team as the new
120 maintainer of the web content on http://samba.org. In fact, he has
121 already been hard at work now for about a week.
128 <li>(26th Apr, 2004) <em>SambaXP 2004 A Success</em>
129 <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>
130 <p>Slides are available from three of the talks <a href="/samba/ftp/slides/sambaxp04/">here</a>.</p>
131 <p>More to come from the conference when it becomes available.</p>
136 <li>(25th Apr, 2004) <em>Samba Development Changes to Subversion</em>
137 <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>
143 <li>(9th Apr, 2004) <em>The Samba Team announces the Samba-3 by Example Book</em>
145 Tech book publisher Prentice Hall PTR announces that Samba-Team member John H.
146 Terpstra's latest book, <em>Samba-3 By Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment</em>
147 (ISBN 0131472216), is now available at Amazon.com and direct from the publisher at
148 www.informit.com/terpstra and at bookstores nationwide. <em>Samba-3 By Example</em>
149 is the companion follow-up book to <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em>
150 (ISBN 0131453556), which was co-edited by John H. Terpstra and fellow Samba-Team member
153 <em>Samba-3 By Example</em> was written in response to demand for real-world worked
154 examples of Samba-3 configurations. A CD-ROM included within the book contains all
155 examples of configuration files, scripts, and tools covered in the book. This CD-ROM
156 also has the binary and source packages for SuSE and Red Hat Linux products.
158 Prentice Hall PTR is pleased to announce that the full source of both books,
159 <em>The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide</em> and the new publication
160 <em>Samba-3 by Example</em> have been posted to Samba.Org samba-docs public code tree.
161 All books in the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series are published under the OPL.
163 For more information see: <a href="http://www.informit.com/terpstra">InformIT</a> or
164 <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>.
165 The PDF and HTML versions of Samba-3 by Example (The Samba Guide) will appear on the
166 Samba web site by April 14th under <a href="http://www.samba.org/samba/docs">the documentation</a>
173 <li>(19th Mar, 2004) <em>Samba 3 wins Innovation Award by German Magazine</em>
175 The German <a href="http://www.pc-professionell.de/">PC Professionell</a>
176 Magazine has awarded Samba 3 as the <em>Innovation of the years
177 2003/2004</em> in the category <em>Network</em>. Volker Lendecke has
178 accepted the award at the Magazine's CeBIT party.
184 <li>(16th Oct, 2003) <em>Tests by ITWEEK show "Samba 3 runs rings around Windows Server 2003 in file serving performance"</em>
186 Tests by the UK magazine <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk">ITWEEK</a> show
187 that an untuned Samba3 server outperforms an untuned Windows 2003 server on the
188 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>
189 and the test results in graph form are <a href="http://www.itweek.co.uk/ITWeek/itw_graph_1144289.jsp">here.</a>
194 <li>(19th Aug, 2003) <em>SCO use of Samba code under the GPL</em>
196 Over the past few months, the SCO Group (formerly Caldera International, Inc.
197 a Linux distribution vendor) has been complaining about violations of its
198 Copyright works by the Linux kernel code.
200 Recently, Darl McBride, the Chief Executive Officer of SCO has been making
201 pejorative statements regarding the license used by the Linux kernel, the
202 GNU GPL. In a keynote speech he recently said:
205 "At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's
206 about destroying value."
209 In light of this, it is the depths of hypocrisy that at the same event
210 SCO also announced the incorporation of the Samba3 release into their
211 latest OpenServer product. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software
212 project that allows Linux and UNIX servers to interoperate with
213 Microsoft Windows clients. The reason for this is clear: Samba3 allows
214 Linux and UNIX servers to replace Microsoft Windows NT Domain
215 Controllers and will add great value to any Operating System which
216 includes it. However, Samba is also developed and distributed under
217 the GNU GPL license, in exactly the same manner as the Linux kernel
218 code that SCO has been criticizing for its lack of care in ownership
221 We observe that SCO is both attacking the GPL on the one hand and
222 benefiting from the GPL on the other hand. SCO can't have it both ways.
223 SCO has a clear choice: either pledge not to use any Open Source/Free
224 Software in any of their products, or actively participate in the Open
225 Source/Free Software movement and reap the benefits. For SCO to continue to
226 use Open Source/Free Software while attacking others for using it is the
227 epitome of hypocrisy.
229 The strength of Open Source/Free Software is that it is available to
230 all without restrictions on fields of endeavor, as the Samba Team
231 believes the ability to freely use, modify and learn from software
232 code is one of the grounding principles of computer science, and a
233 basic freedom for all.
235 Because of this, we believe that the Samba Team must remain true to our
236 principles and our code must be freely available to use even in ways we
237 personally disapprove of.
239 Even when used by rank hypocrites like SCO.
244 Christopher R. Hertel,
246 Jean Francois Micouleau,
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271 site</A> for these web pages. The popularity of Samba puts a strain on
272 our network. By using a mirror site you can do your bit to reduce the
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