Samba heeft een update gekregen naar versienummer 3.0.12. Met dit stukje software kunnen file- en printerservices naadloos worden geleverd aan netwerken met daarin zowel SMB- als CIFS-clients. De release notes zijn op deze pagina te vinden en hieronder staan in het kort de belangrijkste verbeteringen:
Common bugs fixed in 3.0.12 include:Additional features introduced in Samba 3.0.12:
- Winbind failures when using 'disable netbios = yes'
- Failure to establish a trust relationship via 'net rpc trust establish'
- Various portability & compiler issues.
- Read only file deletion failure caused by new delete semantics in Windows XP SP2 and the MS 04-044 security hotfix.
- Error messages from shared Excel workbooks residing on Samba file shares.
- Missing files in the output of smbclient -c 'dir' when run against Windows file servers.
- Inability for Print Administrators to pause/resume/purge print queues.
- Performance enhancements when serving directories containing large number of files.
- MS-DFS support added to smbclient.
- More performance improvements when using Samba/OpenLDAP based DC's via the 'ldapsam:trusted=yes' option.
- Support for the Novell NDS universal password when using the ldapsam passdb backend.
- New 'net rpc trustdom " rel="external">add,del' functionality to eventually replace 'smbpasswd " rel="external">-a,-x -i'.
- New libsmbclient functionality.