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Samba 4 Technology Preview Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it-may-eat-your-cat dept.

daria42 writes "Samba creator Andrew Tridgell has officially released a technology preview of Samba 4 at the Linux.conf.au conference in New Zealand, ending a three-year wait for users. But wait before upgrading those servers. 'It may eat your cat,' says the Samba team in a statement, 'but is far more likely to choose to munch on your password database.'" From the article: "'Samba 4 supports the server-side of the Active Directory logon environment used by Windows 2000 and later, so we can do full domain join and domain logon operations with these clients,' the group said in a statement on its Web site, noting this feature was 'the main emphasis' for the new software."

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  1. What Kind of Passwords Does It Prefer? by gurutc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Smooth or Crunchy?

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    1. Re:What Kind of Passwords Does It Prefer? by DeadRoman · · Score: 4, Funny

      I was going to say that it likes them hashed.

  2. Re:Just Work (TM) by tpgp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Security on a home netowrk doesn't really interest me.

    I know - thats why I'm posting this from your home PC.

    I'd like to be able to "just share" the files without setting up users etc, etc.

    Just post your requirements here I'll set them up for you... after all I don't want your home net to be locked down ;-)

    Seriously - just because you would like software to be shipped insecure (and easy) by default doesn't mean that it should be. Have a look at this guide - Samba-3: A Simple Anonymous Read-Write Server

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  3. My cat lost his password by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    'It may eat your cat,' says the Samba team in a statement, 'but is far more likely to choose to munch on your password database.'

    Wow, it only took 25 days for Samba to break its New Year's resolution to eat less and lose weight.

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  4. NZ??? by oztiks · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linux.conf.au conference in New Zealand

    What the ... HAS THE WORLD GONE MAD!

    Since when did anything .au become New Zealands responsibility? Usually its the other way around! I.e blaming the existance of Russle Crow on Australians. This wasnt our fault HE WAS BORN IN NZ! Now they NZ is stealing our conferences. I for one find this an outrage!