| Samba announces major software update |
Sep. 26, 2003
The Samba Team has announced the release of Samba 3.0, a major new release of their Open Source/Free Software file and print server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. This release focuses on interoperability with Windows clients.
New features that are available include:- Windows NT Primary and Backup Domain Controller functionality. Customers can transparently migrate their existing Windows NT domains to Samba 3.0, keeping their existing user and group account databases.
- Integration with the Microsoft Active Directory domain in both native and mixed host environments mode. This provides single sign-on for *nux-based clients in an Active Directory environment, allowing both servers and clients to transparently use Active Directory as an authentication and account source.
- Implements Kerberos 5 authentication to provide integration with Windows security.
- UNICODE character sets support which allows clients using any character set to connect to a single file server and store names in their native character sets
- Supports the Windows "point-and-print" driver download feature, allowing Samba 3.0 to provide a transparent Windows printing experience.
Full release notes are here.
Source code and GnuPG signatures can be found on Samba mirrors. RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0, and 9.0 are also available in the Binary Packages download area.
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