SAMBA3.0 debut

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(September 25, 2003 from the IDG news Service journalist Robert McMillan)

In Thursday, researchers working on the open source Samba program will publish their first major Unix,linux file server application in two years.

According to Jeremy Allison, one of the program's hosts, after four months of bug testing, program designers from around the world volunteered to join the Samba team to publish the "gold version" of the Samba3.0 start code. Most importantly, he says, this version will be favored by large company line numbers, and they will also be happy to help explain the Samba3.0 features.

Since the launch of Samba in 1991, it has been a popular set of software with Linux operating systems. It has the same functionality as the CIFS (Common Internet File System) transport protocol that is widely used on the network in Microsoft's system, including file sharing, printing and identity authentication.

Many dealers, including ibm,hp and Silicon Graphics, have installed Samba in UNIX and Linux systems.

The latest version of Sambab allows users to move Windows NT 4 more easily to

Samba also allows Samba to take full advantage of the Dynamic directory (Active Directory) services included in the Microsoft Windows2000 and Windows2003 series.

Samba now supports the Kerberos authentication protocol and Microsoft's specification for LADP directory services used in dynamic directory (Active Directory), meaning that in a Windows domain, samba can now more closely combine dynamic catalogs (active Directory) network. Gerald Carter, a developer at Samba, says this means that system administrators can use Windows management tools more easily to manipulate Samber servers.

Carter pointed out that the old version of the Samber2.2 is different. He says that Samba2.2 is like an NT Server, and Samba3.0 is a Windows2000 server.

Stephen F. Henderson says that closer integration with Active Directory makes Samba more secure, and he is the head of an engineering network service that is currently using Samba to service Auburn Universuty ( 1200 clients located in Auburn, Alabama). With these Samba3.0 new design links, he says he is able to authenticate with the user's access token in Active Directory between the Windows system computer and the Samba server.

' We now assume that all the information that comes directly from active Directory server is legal, ' he added.

Samba also supports Microsoft's SMB (Server Message Block) communication protocol, a lower-level security protocol that is used to prevent malicious hackers from modifying the network traffic between the CIFS client and the server. Of course, Samba also has a new internationalization feature that will enable it to support Microsoft clients using a variety of different feature suites.

Allison said that to get samba please in Thursday to http://www.samba.org

Previously available for download with the tar and RPM files (for RedHat 7.3/8.0/9.0)

Center download point (sync with samba.org)

Tar

Ftp://ftp2.tnc.edu.tw/pub/network/samba/beta

Rpm:

http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/RedHat/RPMS/i386/