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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. Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I love playing as the Princess since she can float.

  2. End of an era? by vlm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For the first time in 13 or so years, I'm not admining a samba instance at home or work. Recently killed off the last samba share at home due to some VLAN changes. Mounted filesystems all go over the AFS, or the netatalk. I don't do the "vista" and microsoft thing in general, so that doesn't matter. The macs tolerate the AFS and love the netatalk. The PCs actually work flawlessly as AFS clients, much better than in years past. The unix boxes all use the trinity of AFS / kerberos / ldap, and pretty much, always have used that. Samba, wheres that go, in this picture?

    Is there any reason to move back? or light up a new Samba so I could.... ummm

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    1. Re:End of an era? by Richard_at_work · · Score: 2

      So you don't use it, does that make it an end of an era?

      Like it or not, but there are millions of small offices out there with Windows clients hanging off a Linux file server, so it's anything but the end of an era, especially as SMB2 is actually a much nicer protocol than SMB1.

    2. Re:End of an era? by mewsenews · · Score: 2

      I just looked at AFS on Wikipedia and it looks very interesting.

      What implementation of AFS do you use, server side and client side?

      Do you have any books or documentation online you could recommend?

    3. Re:End of an era? by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 2

      The information came from someone within Microsoft who would have known at the time . Still, you make the best of what you have. The main advantage of SMB2 is that the Windows client redirector was completely rewritten and will now do pipelining of reads and writes. No reason that couldn't have been done in SMB1 - Volker did it for our smbclient libraries - but I believe Microsoft were really scared of messing with the SMB1 code. Everyone who knew it well had already left :-) . One of the benefits of no money in Open Source code, most of the original Samba authors are still working on it :-).

  3. rdesktop by tomer · · Score: 2

    Now we just need someone to update rdesktop to make use of the new Remote Desktop features of Windows Vista.

    1. Re:rdesktop by jedidiah · · Score: 2

      I use it often as well. It runs circles around VNC. If that's the result of Linux having a poor client, then the performance of VNC is really sad.

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

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

  4. I am glad to hear. by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is so much Microsoft Bashing going on that projects like Samba tend to get pushed off as "One of those" Project that only support the Evil Microsoft by Conforming to their standards, vs. trying to make Microsoft Better support ours.

    But I have found in Real Life, these tools greatly help increase the usage of Open Source systems. As well deminishes the need to use Microsoft Standards. As you setup you Samba Share and a NFS share (or whatever you want to use) that goes to the same files, you allow your organization to move away from those windows desktops.

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    1. 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.

    2. Re:I am glad to hear. by Keruo · · Score: 2

      Extinguish works in open source as well.
      It comes to play right after:
      # dmesg | tail -n1
      lp0: on fire

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  5. 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.

  6. 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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    1. Re:SMB2 and databases by iCassius · · Score: 4, Informative

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

  7. 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.