From 26b7288c46b834996ee7936ee93a6d5bc90c64f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jlam Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 02:26:30 +0000 Subject: 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. --- net/samba/DESCR | 20 +++++++------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/samba/DESCR') diff --git a/net/samba/DESCR b/net/samba/DESCR index 2d8f2e0a13c..48deee91c78 100644 --- a/net/samba/DESCR +++ b/net/samba/DESCR @@ -1,13 +1,7 @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.3