[ Thanks to AppWatch
Staff for this announcement. ]
The Samba Team just announce the latest stable version of Samba.
This new release has been tested with Windows 2000 and has no known
issues with that Windows release. Many performance improvements
were made, along with the addition of new options for utmp
handling, write caching, administration, and a lot of bugfixes. The
O’Reilly book “Using
Samba” has been donated to the Samba community and is included with
this release in HTML format. All users are recommened to
upgrade.
“The Samba software suite is a collection of programs that
implements the Server Message Block (commonly abbreviated as SMB)
protocol for UNIX systems. This protocol is sometimes also referred
to as the Common Internet File System (CIFS), LanManager or NetBIOS
protocol.”
You can check the relevant
links and the changes
history at AppWatch.com.