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Samba 3.0.0 Released
Matt writes "As posted on Samba.org the fine folks at Samba.org released their newest version of the popular free Windows File- and Print Server. Most famous additions are Active Directory integration and possibilities to form NT4 trust relationships. Release notes are online." See also their press release.
There are exploits in every product, opensource or not. It's just a matter of you taking necessary precautions like using a decent firewall and patching regularly.
opensource != secure
Thanks Egan, good safety tip.
by any stretch of the imagination, in fact there are probably numerous untold exploits available for this software. Its just a matter of time, as with any opensource product.
And let`s also remember that _because_ it is open source, we now have thousands of developers who can view the code, find potential exploits, and then propose patches, QUICKLY and WITHOUT BIAS. Unfortunately, for patches to the same styled exploits that would exist in a closed source networking protocol, we would need to depend on a small team of developers under a common management structure (one pointy haired boss = single point of failure).
Open Source != secure
Open Source == better method toward security
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Have you considered that it is far more likely that the problem is with Samba than XP.
If MS were going to make XP not work with Samba, they would have made ALL XP not work, rather than just a few XP installs and at random.
Not everything is a conspiricy you know...
That's only because there wasn't a "Very Intersting" selection...
Now that's something I haven't seen before.
"unset a 'check profile ownership acls'"
I'll have to look into that.
Thanks!
--Remove chicken to e-mail
I imagine the flamebait was for:
/.'s have been attempting to help me solve the problem instead of modding me out of existence. :(
"This frustration I felt has actually pushed me one more step towards switching all of our machines over to Linux. It may not happen tomorrow, but it will happen"
It's not flamebait people, it's actualy how I feel. Other nice
--Remove chicken to e-mail
Very true.
The advantage of opensource is that you can examine the internals yourself, and fix it yourself.
The more sophisticated the user, the more valuable opensource is. If you're a low level admin who can't do anything more than apply pre-canned patches, opensource may be cheaper but it isn't defacto better. If you can participate in the patch process by either writing your own patches or applying patches from the developers directly or from other users, rather than waiting for a vendor, you can be way ahead of the game.
I had a lot of trouble getting xp to read a public samba share with no password - 2k worked fine, but for xp I needed to do (in the command prompt):
/USER:
net use t: \\linux-box\samba-share *
(and just press enter for the password)
This maps it to drive t:
I call bullshit here. I regularly set up Linux Samba servers (file and print) that work fine with Win98, NT, 2K and XP machines. Both standalone and as domain members. I've used both the normal smb password file and LDAP passwords for authentication, and it all works faultlessly.
In fact I'm sitting at an XP machine right now that's mounting from 3 different Samba servers...
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
That's exactly what I did 3 years ago when M$ started playing games with Active Directory, and I still had a network full of 98 and NT boxes. We set up a new domain, and moved all the file and print services to it.
Now that we have aged out all of the decrepid hardware and standardized on 2k, ActiveDirectory is a good idea. But that is 3 years, and a $100,000 in hardware later.
Having trust support would have saved me from having to hike to all the machines and add them to the new domain. I can imagine with NT entering M$'s discard pile, there are quite a few NT shops that are looking for a drop in replacement.
Enter the dragon...
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
Of course you're worried about migrating users. If Samba gets easier to use, you'll find people migrating from the biggest user base on the planet - Windows.
And worry about alienating Linux users? Please, where are you going to go to get something better? On a Mac? I know you're not going to stop using Linux (maybe Samba, but who cares, I guess) and go to Windows because your system is operating more and more like Windows.
Unless you're losing functionality, cheer the changes. As more users (like me) migrate to open source, your exclusive club will get better and better. I'll tell you one thing - if Samba gets easier to figure out, I'll certainly start using it to get my systems connected to a single file server.
No, they never did this. Oplocks are problematic in that
Windows boxes tend not to respond to oplock break requests
if there are *any* network problems. Most people have cheap
switches/hubs etc. For instance on my home network I can
only reliably ssh transfer a 100mb file over one of my
switches (the gigabit one), the 100Mbit switch will
consistantly corrupt the tcp stream causing ssh to abort.
oplocks need *reliable* networking hardware.
Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.
How are you going to compile apache without GCC? I think you should reverse that order..
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.