Samba is a CIFS and SMB client and server designed for UNIX and other operating systems. CIFS and SMB are protocols that allow computers to share documents or printers and more.
The Samba package provides a SMB server that offers a Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print services to SMB clients.
Samba also includes a Windows NT 4.0 Domain Controller replacement, a file/print server that can act as a member of a Windows NT 4.0 or Active Directory domain and a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which amongst other things gives browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish.
Furthermore, you get access to a ftp-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and printers) from UNIX, Netware, and other operating systems, a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs and a limited command-line tool that supports some of the NT administrative functionality, which can be used on Samba, NT workstation and NT server.
How to install: Unarchive, open a Terminal window, go to Samba's folder and run the following commands from the command line:
./configure
make
sudo make install
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Improvements to the 'samba-tool domain samba3upgrade' and samba_upgradedns tools
· Stability improvements in the Samba4 winbind implementation (that used in the AD DC mode).
· The BIND 9 DLZ plugin is now compatible with both BIND 9.8, and BIND 9.9.
· dbcheck and runtime protection for the fSMORoleOwner attribute. This allows us to recover from a situation where the fSMORoleOwner is deleted.
· Support for storing the posixAccount and other auxiliary objectClass values (the values are not used by Samba as an AD DC at this stage, but may be used by clients).
Some major but less visible changes include:
· Continued early implementation work on the SMB 2.2 protocol client and server as the team improves and develops support these new protocols.
· Initial work to build Samba using MIT kerberos in the top level waf build system. This is not complete at this time, but good progress is being made.
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