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Samba 2.06 Released

Posted by Hemos on from the honest-i'm-a-NT-box dept.

LazLong wrote to let us know that Samba [?] 2.06 has been released. A whole slew of bug fixes, as well as some new features. The technical documentation is available, or just go all out and grab the tarball.

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  1. now we should have new NT vs. Linux Benchmarks by Haven · · Score: 2

    Now that there is an new version of Samba we should have those mindspring tests again. Wasn't a big part of that benchmark serving win98 clients through samba?

    1. Re:now we should have new NT vs. Linux Benchmarks by DaveHowe · · Score: 3

      Now that there is an new version of Samba we should have those mindspring tests again. Wasn't a big part of that benchmark serving win98 clients through samba?
      Not entirely sure about that - they have fixed quite a few bugs, niggles and security issues, but I don't see much if anything that would make it faster. In any case, if the test showed that NT was still faster than Samba, it would be dismissed by the linux community as biased, due to NT being optimised for Win95 and not NT workstation, or just wrong. If it showed NT slower than Samba, then Microsoft would dismiss it for almost the same reasons :+)
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    2. Re:now we should have new NT vs. Linux Benchmarks by DragonHawk · · Score: 2

      they have fixed quite a few bugs, niggles and security issues, but I don't see much if anything that would make it faster.

      As it should be. One of the reasons I like Open Source Software is that the programmers generally concentrate on real improvements, not arbitrary benchmarks.

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  2. Hmmm. by jd · · Score: 4

    I want my money back. Freshmeat listed this as being "low urgency". New features is -always- high urgency! Even if I never use them. Why do you think I've 4.5 gigabytes of Open Source software I've never even untarred?

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  3. Use the mirrors.... by Xemu · · Score: 5
    There's a whole world of mirrors out there:
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  4. All we need now... by BorgDrone · · Score: 4

    All we need now is a way to browse the samba network. I know there are app's like gnomba and LinNeighbourhood. but I want to be able to mount the 'network neighbourhood' under /samba and be able to browse that in every application just like you can allways access the network neighbourhood from any open / save dialog in window$.
    So in /samba or you have 'directories' that represent workgroups and in that directories that represent computers etc.
    that's what I would really like.
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  5. Number 1 change ... by Hrunting · · Score: 4

    All the bug and code fixes aside, the entire reason that I'm downloading this release is for their updated documentation. When 2.05 came out, the Samba team came under heavy fire for not updating their documentation (the old smbmount pages were out of date even before that), especially considering they had completely redone the option system for smbmount and other utils. It looks like they've redone that again, but the documentation is now a) up-to-date and b) many times more verbose than it ever was.

    Kudos to the Samba team for listening to and executing the ideas of its users.

  6. Re:Packaging by Xemu · · Score: 2
    ....the initial release of most software is in the form of a tarball. ... My problem is that alot of stuff under RH6 and other distros use RPM, or dpkg, or other such utilities. ... Packaging should not be this difficult.


    It is only difficult for the browsing-impaired unwashed masses. On the Samba website, you have the option of downloading both RedHat and Debian packages for the new samba release.

    They're on the Samba FTP site, too. Gee.

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  7. Re:Only one complaint by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 4

    Shaman wrote :

    > It would be nice to see a single task,
    > multithreaded model. That would really kick ass
    > IMHO.

    Actually, no, I'm afraid it would suck :-). Come to one of my Samba talks if you want the gory details why, but essentially the problem is with threads switching user contexts. Think about how Samba provides UNIX security....

    Cheers,

    Jeremy Allison,
    Samba Team.

  8. Re:Packaging by ucblockhead · · Score: 2

    What would really be nice is some sort of way to fake RPM into thinking that the new tarball you just compiled and installed was something installed through RPM. Perhaps some sort of file list that comes with the tarball that could be sent to the rpm command. In other words, a way to tell rpm "I just installed this myself, here's what it looks like".

    It is really nice having a nice rpmized version installed because you don't have to remember things like what files make up the program.

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  9. Re:How does 'mount' work now? by slashkitty · · Score: 2
    the new syntax is

    mount -t smbfs -o username=foo,password=bar //foo/test /data/test

    which seems to work better then the previous version... Though i do notice a delay now between when the comand completes and when the file system is actually mounted..

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  10. SMB Network Password Expirations by Greyfox · · Score: 2

    My biggest problem with Samba at the moment is I don't get notified when my password is about to expire on the network, so it often ends up getting expired since I tend to boot in to Windows less often than the expiration time (Around 6 months.) I'd be great if 1) Samba would warn me when my network password is about to expire and 2) let me change it so I don't have to boot into Windows at all.

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