Jeremy Allison: Samba 2.2.0 – Powering the next generation of Network Attached Storage

The Samba Team is proud to announce a new major release of
Samba, version 2.2.0. This release includes significant feature
enhancements for Samba, and sets the standard for UNIX and
Microsoft Windows integration.

Enhancements include :

• Integration of server terminated leases (Windows “oplocks”)
  with UNIX NFS sharing (Linux 2.4 kernel and IRIX only). Complete
  data and locking integrity when sharing files between UNIX and
  Windows.
• Ability to act as an authentication source for Windows 2000 and
  Windows NT clients, allowing savings on the purchase of Microsoft
  Client Access Licenses.
• Full support for the automatic downloading of Windows 2000 and
  Windows NT printer drivers, providing the first full implementation
  of the Windows NT point-and-print functionality independent of
  Microsoft code.
• Unification of Windows 2000 and Windows NT Access control lists
  (ACLs) with UNIX Access control lists. Allow Windows clients to
  directly manipulate UNIX Access control entries as though they were
  Windows ACLs.
• Single sign-on integration using the winbind server (available
  separately). Allow UNIX servers to use Windows 2000 and Windows NT
  Domain controllers as a user and group account server. Manage all
  user and group accounts from a single source.
• Microsoft Distributed File System (DFS) support. Samba 2.2.0
  can act as a DFS server in a Microsoft network.
• Share level security setting. Allow security on Samba shares to
  be set by Microsoft client tools.
• Many other feature enhancements and bug fixes.

About Samba
Samba is an Open Source/Free Software implementation of the
Microsoft CIFS/SMB protocols for UNIX systems. In development for
ten years, Samba is considered to be the reference implementation
of the CIFS/SMB protocol for UNIX systems. Samba test tools are
used by all the CIFS/SMB vendors to test and fix their protocol
implementations.

Samba is currently used in Network attached storage (NAS) and
other products from the following vendors (Note: this does not
imply endorsement by these vendors, please contact the vendor
marketing departments separately for comments).

IBM, SGI (Samba for IRIX), Sun Microsystems (Cobalt Qube),
Hewlett Packard (CIFS/9000), VERITAS, VA Linux Systems, REALM
Information Technologies, Network Concierge, Procom and many
others.

In addition, Samba is shipped as a standard part of Linux
offerings from Linux vendors such as Red Hat, Caldera, SuSE,
Mandrake, TurboLinux and others.

Samba is being used worldwide to solve the problem of
integrating hetrogeneous networks by corporations such as Agilent
Technologies, CISCO Systems, and many others in addition to
educational establishments and individuals

Best of all Samba is an Open Source/Free software project,
available under the GNU GPL license meaning that source code for
Samba is freely available for anyone to modify and customize.

Code from the Samba Team and individuals around the world has
been integrated and tested to create Samba. In addition the
following corporations have made significant donations of code,
effort, testing facilities and support to make this release
possible :

Linuxcare (now TurboLinux), VA Linux Systems, Caldera, SGI,
Hewlett Packard, VERITAS, IBM.

This new release may be downloaded from our Web site at :

http://www.samba.org