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.

Comments

Re:Becareful about using this

[Brahmastra]

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.

Re:Becareful about using this

[davejenkins]

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

Re:Becareful about using this

[RevMike]

opensource != secure

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.

Re:Do you mean 'oplocks'?

[Jeremy Allison - Sam]

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.

Re:Open source top 5 best contributions

[xchino]

How are you going to compile apache without GCC? I think you should reverse that order..