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authorjlam <jlam>2004-01-11 02:26:30 +0000
committerjlam <jlam>2004-01-11 02:26:30 +0000
commit26b7288c46b834996ee7936ee93a6d5bc90c64f1 (patch)
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Update net/samba to 3.0.1. Major changes from version 2.2.8anb6 include:
* Active Directory support. Samba is able to join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate using LDAP/Kerberos. * Unicode support. * New, more flexible authentication (passdb) system. * A new "net" command that is similar to the "net" command in Windows. * Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire, which greatly improves error handling. * Better Windows 2K/2K3/XP printing support. * Loadable module support for passdb backends and character sets. * More performant winbindd. * Support for migrating from a Windows NT4 domain to a Samba domain and maintaining user, group, and domain SIDs. * Support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT4 DCs. * Initial support for a distributed Winbind architecture using an LDAP directory for storing SID-to-uid/gid mappings. * Major updates to the Samba documentation tree. * Full support for client and server SMB signing to ensure compatibility with default Windows 2K3 security settings. * Improvement of ACL mapping features.
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-Samba is a suite of programs which work together to allow clients to
-access to a server's filespace and printers via the SMB (Server
-Message Block) protocol.
-
-In practice, this means that you can redirect disks and printers to
-Unix disks and printers from Lan Manager clients, Windows for
-Workgroups 3.11 clients, Windows NT clients, Linux clients and OS/2
-clients. There is also a generic Unix client program supplied as part
-of the suite which allows Unix users to use an ftp-like interface to
-access filespace and printers on any other SMB servers. This gives the
-capability for these operating systems to behave much like a LAN
-Server or Windows NT Server machine, only with added functionality and
-flexibility designed to make life easier for administrators.
+Samba is a suite of applications that speak the Server Message Block (SMB)
+protocol. Samba allows a UNIX machine to perform client-server networking
+for file and printer sharing with Microsoft Windows systems using their
+native network protocol and to appear as another Windows system on the
+network from the perspective of a Windows client. The Samba suite also
+includes client tools that allow users to access folders and printers that
+Windows systems and Samba servers offer on the network.