Disponibile la prima beta di Samba 3

Il gruppo di sviluppo del software Samba ha rilasciato la prima release beta di Samba 3.0, il programma open source che permette a pc Linux e windows di comunicare e condividere le risorse di rete attraverso il protocollo SMB.

Ovviamente, trattandosi di una release beta è consigliata l'installazione solo per scopo di testing e non certo in implementazioni di rete in produzione.

• Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
  as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos.
• Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and
  internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
  and UNICODE character sets.
• New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
  been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
  but the new auth system is also very configurable.
• New filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
  completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
  persistently. This needs lots of testing.
• New "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
  somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we
  plan to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd)
  with subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
  implemented.
• Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
  improves error handling a lot.
• Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing
  printer attributes in active directory