Dinsdag is in de vorm van versie 3.2 een update van Samba uitgebracht. Dit programma draait op Unix-, BSD- en Linux-servers en is in staat om bestand- en/of printerservices aan Windows-clients te bieden via het zogenaamde Common Internet File System-protocol. Uitgebreide documentatie, inclusief praktische how-to's, kunnen op deze pagina worden gevonden. Versie 3.2 is de eerste release van Samba die onder versie 3 van de gpl-licentie wordt uitgebracht. Hieronder zijn de belangrijkste veranderingen in deze release voor je op een rijtje gezet:
File Serving:Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
- Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC interfaces.
- Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS.
- Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
- Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
- Experimental support for file serving clusters.
- Support for IPv6 in the server, and client tools and libraries.
- Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs.
- Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server.
- Support for Vista clients authenticating via Kerberos.
Joining:
- Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts and one-way domain trusts.
- Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS lookups.
- Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls.
- Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy.
- New LGPL Winbind client library (libwbclient.so).
- Support for establishing interdomain trust relationships with Windows 2008.
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- New NetApi library for domain join related queries (libnetapi.so) and example GTK+ Domain join gui.
- New client and server support for remotely joining and unjoining Domains.
- Support for joining into Windows 2008 domains.