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Samba 3.6 Released With SMB2 Support

Posted by Unknown on from the who-needs-windows dept.

Jeremy Allison - Sam wrote in to let us know the Samba project has made a major new release. The main highlight is support for SMB 2.0 which was released as part of Windows Vista. There are a number of other improvements to printing support, clustering, and identity mapping; details can be found in the release notes.

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  1. Re:SMB 2.0 by gad_zuki! · · Score: 3, Informative

    Microsoft contributes to Samba and sees it as a necessary product. For mindlessly evil patent abuse, please visit your local Apple store, thanks.

  2. Context for moderators by tepples · · Score: 1, Informative

    Among fans of classic video games, "SMB2" refers to the video game Super Mario Bros. 2: Mario Madness for Nintendo Entertainment System. It was the first game where Peach (then known only as Princess Toadstool) was playable. There is another game also called Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels, a mission-pack sequel to the original Super Mario Bros. that took a long time to get released outside Japan. This one is abbreviated "SMB2 (J)".

    Jokes about classic Mario games have been around since the dawn of Samba.

  3. SMB2 and databases by DigiShaman · · Score: 4, Informative

    SMB2 communications occur when you have a Windows Vista (and above) communicating with Server 2008. If you're using XP or Server 2003 in any combination with the newer OS, it steps down to SMB1. The thing to realize is that SMB2 doesn't handle oplocks well. So legacy file-based databases will break and become corrupted when communicating over SMB2.

    I can't find the KB, but per Microsoft, they highly recommend using SQL and not files for future databases as SMB2 will most likely break that functionality. I can vouch for this advice as I've seen some strange shit in this regard.

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    Life is not for the lazy.
    1. Re:SMB2 and databases by iCassius · · Score: 4, Informative

      KB link, with hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028965

  4. Re:so does it handle subnets yet ?? by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 5, Informative

    We've handled that case since the mid 1990's...

    Jeremy.

  5. Re:rdesktop by dannyof47 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Try the fork FreeRDP . A lot of problems with rdesktop have been fixed.

  6. Re:I am glad to hear. by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't need likewise-open (which might now be better named "likewise-closed" as it's been sold off to another company, probably to "monetize" all the suckers who installed the "free" version :-). Winbindd which ships with Samba will do the authentication and is developed and tested in conjunction with the rest of Samba.

    Jeremy.