Samba

Samba Description

Samba was originally designed as an open source implementation of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol on Linux-based operating systems. It is mainly used to provide print/file sharing services to CIFS (Common Internet File System) and SMB clients.In time, the Samba project evolved into a comprehensive piece of software that implementats several services and protocols, including NBT (NetBIOS over TCP/IP), DCE/RPC (MSRPC), WINS server, Security Accounts Manager (SAM) database, Local Security Authority (LSA) service, and much more.In other words, Samba is the standard when we talk about interoperability between Windows-based operating system and Linux/UNIX servers. If you want to share files between Linux/UNIX hosts and Windows clients, you have to install Samba.The application is easily installable on any Linux distribution, directly from its default software repositories, but it can also be used on different platforms, such as OpenVMS, IBM System 390, UNIX, etc.It uses the TCP/IP protocol and allows users to create shares on Linux distributions that can be accessed without hassle on any Microsoft Windows operating system.Samba is engineered in such a way that it provides secure, fast and stable seamless file and print services to both SMB/CIFS clients. In addition, it supports Active Directory (AD).The Samba project is comprised of two key programs, the SMB saemon (smbd), which handles both"user mode"and"share mode"authorization and authentication processes, and nmbd, which is used for handling name resolution and browsing.Overall, we believe that Samba should be installed by default in any Linux distribution, in order to allow users to efficiently share files with other operating systems. The software runs entirely in the background. What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]BUG 10259: Make shadow_copy2 module working with Windows 7.BUG 10087: ntlm_auth sometimes returns the wrong username to mod_ntlm_auth_winbind.BUG 2662: Make revamped directory handling code 64bit clean.BUG 10358: Fix 100% CPU utilization in winbindd when trying to free memory in winbindd_reinit_after_fork.BUG 10429: s3: modules: streaminfo: As we have no VFS function SMB_VFS_LLISTXATTR we can't cope with a symlink when lp_posix_pathnames() is true.BUG 0280: s3:winbindd: Fix use of uninitialized variables.BUG 10418: Fix INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 11 in the kdc pid.BUG 10418: Add support for Heimdal's unified krb5 and hdb plugin system.BUG 2191: s3-winbind: Improve performance of wb_fill_pwent_sid2uid_done().BUG 10415: smbd: Fix memory overwrites.BUG 10436: smbd: Fix an ancient oplock bug.BUG 10442: Fix crash bug in smb2_notify code.BUG 10418: Cope with first element in hdb_method having a different name in different heimdal versions. �.You can free download Samba from Softpedia now.