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Samba 3.0.0RC1 Released

Posted by michael on from the keeping-up-with-the-gateses dept.

dook43 writes "Samba 3.0.0 RC1 has been released as of 8/16. Probably the most important new feature is its Active Directory support, but the rest of the new features can be found at the website."

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  1. AD Controller Not Yet Suported by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Just as an FYI,

    From the 3.0 FAQ

    The following functionalities are NOT provided by Samba-3:

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    SAM replication with Windows NT4 Domain Controllers (i.e. a Samba PDC and a Windows NT BDC or vice versa)
    *

    Acting as a Windows 2000 Domain Controller (i.e. Kerberos and Active Directory) - In point of fact, Samba-3 DOES have some Active Directory Domain Control ability that is at this time purely experimental AND that is certain to change as it becomes a fully supported feature some time during the Samba-3 (or later) life cycle.


    The samba team is doing a great job moving forward. What I would hope to also see in the near future is support for creating a (Linux) directory heirachy based network using samba that will allow both MS and non MS clients. It would be nice to be able to create an LDAP directory trust relationship to your friends/family/etc.. network to allow logins between them...
    1. Re:AD Controller Not Yet Suported by cleverhandle · · Score: 5, Informative

      "What I would hope to also see in the near future is support for creating a (Linux) directory heirachy based network using samba that will allow both MS and non MS clients."

      Once they have AD controller support, that part is easy - and also not exactly Samba's job. Just create appropriate schemas for your LDAP server and have a Samba AD controller authenticate client requests via LDAP. What's not there yet is the ability to handle MS Kerberos properly - creating the Kerberos tokens in the proper format and passing them off to the client is more of a barrier than any LDAP protocol issue.

  2. Cool feature that is easy to miss by Gerdts · · Score: 5, Informative
    As I was reading the announcement, I missed item 42 (Added win2k3 shadow copy operations to VFS interface). Taking a look at the discussion on the samba-technical list, this seems like it is a very cool feature. It paves the way for being able to look at snapshot file systems (Veritas, UFS, LVM, etc.) and even creating a VFS interface that will allow you to browse the last 64 revisions of file a CVS repository. Very cool.

    Now, I would just love to see this in smbfs.

  3. Re:Samba wha?.... by Kunta+Kinte · · Score: 5, Informative
    No. How much security does NFS have built-in? Exactly none

    Care to back that up?

    NFS protocol has built in encryption/authentication using GSS-API since version 3. That was quite a few years ago. NFS version 4 is out.

    I maintained a lab running on an encrypted NFS FS about 3 years ago, on Solaris 7.

    Linux didn't have support for encrypted NFS because the kernel hackers couldn't get encryption into the kernel at the time. Now that 2.6 has kernel encryption services Linux will support the full NFSv4 spec. Or at least support the security features.

    But you can't blame the engineers that developed NFS, they've had encryption/authentication built into the protocol for years now.

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