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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>(7th Aug, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.6rc2 Available for Download</em>
32 <p>The second release candiate of Samba 3.0.6 is now available for download.
33 Previously released snapshots in this series were referred to as 3.0.5pre1
34 and 3.0.5rc1. These were later renamed as the 3.0.6 series due to the
35 3.0.5 security release. Samba 3.0.6rc2 can be downloaded in
36 <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/samba-3.0.6rc2.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
37 The <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/samba-3.0.6rc2.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
38 There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.4/5 release that
39 we feel are important to make available to the Samba community
40 for wider testings. This release is <b>not</b> intended for production
41 servers. Use at your own risk. All testing is very much appreciated.
42 Please refer to the <a href="/samba/ftp/rc/WHATSNEW-3-0-6rc2.txt">Release Notes</a> for
43 descriptions of the exact changes.
45 <p><a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS for RedHat 8/9
46 and Fedora Core 1/2</a> can also be downloaded.
52 <li>(22nd Jul, 2004) <em>Security Release - Samba 2.2.10 and 3.0.5 Available for Download</em>
53 <p>Two potential buffer overruns have been discovered in Samba >= 3.0.2
54 <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/">CAN-2004-0600,CAN-2004-0686</a>).
55 One of these issues, CAN-2004-0686, also affects Samba 2.2.x.
56 Samba administrators are encouraged to review the <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.5.html">3.0.5</a>
57 and <a href="/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.10.html">2.2.10</a> release notes
58 and upgrade any affected servers.
59 Samba 3.0.5 and 2.2.10 are identical to the previous release in each
60 respective series with the exception of fixing these issues.
61 Samba 3.0.5rc1 has been removed from the download area on Samba.org
62 and 3.0.6rc2 will be available later this week.</br>
64 <p>The 3.0.5 and 2.2.10 releases <a href="/samba/ftp/">are available for download</a>
65 including the gpg signatures of the uncompressed tarballs. <a
66 href="/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/">Binary packages for various platforms</a>
67 will be available following the initial release.
72 <li>(22nd Jul, 2004) <em>Security Page Added to samba.org</em>
73 <p>A security release page has been added to samba.org. The page lists all security releases since Samba 2.0.0. An overview is provided by date of release and features a quick-glance overview of the security concern, affected releases, and download links. A link is provided to full release notes for those requiring more in-depth information.</p>
75 <p>A link to the page has been added to the navigation menu at the top of each page. Or go directly to the new Samba security page <a href="/samba/security.html">here</a>.</p>
80 <li>(22nd Jul, 2004) <em>End of Life for Samba 2.2 Announced</em>
81 <p>October 1, 2004 has been designated as the end-of-life (EOL)
82 for the Samba 2.2 codebase. Samba 2.2 has been in maintenance
83 mode since the release of v3.0.0 last September. With this announcement
84 it is being officially announced that there will be no further
85 2.2 releases (including security fixes) following the October 1 deadline.
86 All Samba administrators are encouraged to upgrade aging Samba 2.x servers
93 <li>(16th Jun, 2004) <em>Welcome new Samba Team member Vance Lankhaar</em>
94 <p>Vance is joining the Samba Team as maintainer of the <a
95 href="http://build.samba.org">build farm</a>. Vance has been
96 around Samba for a while now. He has previous contributions
97 to the build farm and has worked on Samba's documentation, and though
98 he didn't consider himself a C programmer at the time, he did build
99 the 'build options' support for smbd. We are glad to welcome Vance
106 <li>(25th May, 2004) <em>Samba 3.0.5pre1 Available for Download</em>
107 <p>The first preview release of Samba 3.0.5 is now available for
108 download in <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.gz">gzipped format</a>.
109 The <a href="/samba/ftp/pre/samba-3.0.5pre1.tar.asc">GPG signature</a> is for the uncompressed tarball.
110 There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.4 release that
111 we feel are important to make available to the Samba community
112 for wider testings. This release is <b>not</b> intended for production
113 servers. Use at your own risk. Please refer to the <a
114 href="/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3-0-5pre1.txt">Release Notes</a> for
115 descriptions of the exact changes.
117 <P><b>ATTENTION! NEW BEHAVIOR!</b>
119 <p>Beginning with Samba 3.0.5pre1, clients supporting the UNIX
120 extensions to the CIFS protocol can create symlinks to
121 absolute paths which <em>will be followed</em> by the server. This
122 functionality has been requested in order to correctly support
123 certain applications when the user's home directory is mounted
124 using some type of CIFS client (e.g. the cifsvfs in the Linux
127 <p>If this behavior is not acceptable for your production environment,
128 you can set <a href="/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html">wide
129 links = no</a> in the specific share declaration in
130 the server's smb.conf. Be aware that disabling wide link support
131 out of a share in Samba may impact the server's performance due
132 to the fact that smbd will now have to check each path additional
133 times before traversing it.
135 <p><a href="http://samba.org/~jerry/RPMS/samba/">RPMS for RedHat 8/9
136 and Fedora Core 1</a> can also be downloaded.
140 <a href="whatsnew/">older news</a>
145 <a href="/samba/tshirt.html">Samba T-shirts and mugs</a>
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147 alt="" align="MIDDLE" border=0></a>
148 <a href="/samba/tshirt.html">are available!</a>
152 <p align="center"><em>Please use the closest <A HREF="/samba/">mirror
153 site</A> for these web pages. The popularity of Samba puts a strain on
154 our network. By using a mirror site you can do your bit to reduce the
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