De ontwikkelaars van Samba zijn druk bezig en de tweede release candidate van versie 3.0.21 staat al weer op de planken. Samba draait op onder andere Linux-servers en is in staat om file- en/of printer-services aan Windows-clients te bieden. Voor de documentatie over het hoe en wat van Samba kan je een kijkje nemen op deze pagina. De release notes zien er als volgt uit:
This is a release candidate of the 3.0.21 code base and is provided for testing purposes only. While this snapshot is *not* intended for production servers, we do believe that this will become the 3.0.21 final release. Your testing and feedback is greatly appreciated.
Common bugs fixed in 3.0.21 include:New features introduced in Samba 3.0.21 include:
- Missing groups in a user's token when logging in via kerberos
- Incompatibilities with newer MS Windows hotfixes and embedded OS platforms
- Portability and crash bugs.
- Performance issues in winbindd.
- Complete NTLMv2 support by consolidating authentication mechanism used at the CIFS and RPC layers.
- The capability to manage Unix services using the Win32 Service Control API.
- The capability to view external Unix log files via the Microsoft Event Viewer.
- New libmsrpc share library for application developers.
- Rewrite of CIFS oplock implementation.
- Performance Counter external daemon.
- Winbindd auto-detection query methods when communicating with a domain controller.