Samba draait op Unix-, BSD- en Linux-gebaseerde servers en is in staat om file- en printerservices aan Windows-clients te bieden via het zogenaamde ‘Common Internet File System‘-protocol. Enkele dagen geleden hebben de ontwikkelaars de eerste versie van Samba 3.2.0 uitgebracht. De nieuwe tak van Samba kent niet alleen nieuwe features en bugfixes, maar daarnaast wordt de 3.2.0-serie ook beschikbaar gesteld onder de GPLv3-licentie. Hierbeneden staat het changelog van Samba 3.2.0-pre1 gepost:

File Serving:

• 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.

Winbind and Active Directory Integration:

• Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts and one-way domain trusts
• Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS lookups.
• Support in pam_winbind for logging on using the userPrincipalName.
• Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls.
• Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy.

Users & Groups:

• New ldb backend for local group mapping tables
• Raised level of security defaults for authentication operations.

Documentation:

• Inclusion of an HTLM version of the 3rd edition of “Using Samba” from O’Reilly Publishing.