Posted
5 days
ago
<p>I've been trying to write something clever about this for weeks now. I mean with
the blogging attention paid to Loudoun Extra and Rob Curley and members of our group leaving the Post,
I almost fell compelled to write something
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clever. But I've been working, and working
hard. And enjoying the work, and the time just keeps slipping away. So now it's been
three weeks I've spent on a new job at <a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/">the Las
Vegas Sun</a>, and I haven't even mentioned it here yet.</p>
<p>It has indeed been an amazing few weeks. I'm feeling as productive as I've ever felt.
I'm writing a lot of code and really enjoying work, and I still have time for life outside
of work. If you look for me on <a href="http://youtube.com/">YouTube</a> and
<a href="http://flickr.com/">Flickr</a>, you can get a hint of the kinds of
things I'm working on these days. See our
<a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/july-4/submit-photos/">call for July 4 photo
submissions</a> to get an idea, too.</p>
<p>As new projects surface and time allows, I'll post about new things here.
Hopefully, even more so than I did at the Post. But no gaurantees, in case the work
is too fun to take time to write about.</p> [Less]
Posted
8 days
ago
The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.2, a major
new release of the award-winning Free Software file and print server
suite for Microsoft Windows ® clients.
The evolution of the Samba platform
Samba
... [More]
3.2 builds upon the success of Samba 3.0 by modernizing and
enhancing the code whilst still retaining compatibility with all
existing Samba installations. Samba is the leading technology choice
for Windows file serving on UNIX ® platforms and in embedded Network
Attached Storage (NAS) solutions. Samba is used by vendors selling NAS
solutions ranging from high end clustered business-critical systems,
to low end consumer devices, and everything in between.
Clustered file server support
Samba 3.2, in conjunction with the
ctdb
libraries and a back-end distributed file system such as Sun's Lustre
®, IBM's GPFS ® or Red Hat's GFS ®, can provide a fully
clustered file server solution. Every node is able to simultaneously
serve an identical, consistent view of the exported file system. Not
just a simple "fail-over" high availability solution, Samba 3.2 with
ctdb provides a scalable clustered file server solution with full
Windows file sharing semantics. Samba and ctdb are already being
shipped in production file serving products to some of the most
demanding customers in the world in fields such as animation and video
production.
Easier configuration
Samba 3.2 introduces a 'registry' based configuration system. This
allows vendors embedding Samba in an appliance to more easily manage
Samba configuration via the supplied commands or library functions
without having to write scripts to modify a text file.
Improved Integration with Microsoft Windows ®
Samba 3.2 has been designed and tested to integrate with the latest
Microsoft Windows ® clients and servers, such as Windows Vista ®
service pack 1, and Windows server 2008 ®.
Encrypted network transport
An innovation created by the Samba Team, Samba 3.2 has extended the
CIFS/SMB protocol to allow transport encryption. File system shares
may now be marked as "encrypted" and all access to these shares is now
encrypted over the network. Standard GSSAPI encryption techniques are
used to safeguard the data. This extension to the CIFS/SMB protocol is
open and available for other vendors to adopt without requiring patent
licenses or other restrictions.
Reduced memory requirements
The memory footprint of Samba has been reduced by the use of the Samba
developed "talloc" library, in order to allow greater use of Samba in
embedded devices with limited memory requirements. All restrictions on
file name lengths have been removed.
IPv6 support
The networking functions have been re-written to ensure Samba 3.2 is
fully IPv6 compliant. Customers may now use Samba in an IPv6-only
network, and it has been tested to work with Microsoft Windows ®
IPv6 implementations as well as UNIX ® IPv6 implementations.
New library code
Samba 3.2 begins the migration of Samba from a monolithic application
to a more modular architecture comprised of library functions which
can be used to control and configure the Samba environment. The new
libnetapi library to control domain membership is one of the first
examples of this new approach.
New release manager
Samba 3.2 marks the debut of Karolin Seeger as our new release
manager, funded full time to work on Samba releases by
SerNet GmbH. The Samba Team is happy to
welcome Karolin as a Team member, and we hope that Karolin will be driving
our release process for many years to come.
Now Licensed under the GNU GPLv3
The Samba Team has adopted the Version 3 of the GNU General Public
License for the 3.2 and later releases. The GPLv3 is the updated
version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently
distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility with other
licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free
Software in the 21st Century.
The original announcement is available on-line at
Samba Adopts
GPLv3 for Future Releases.
Samba is the leading choice for Microsoft Windows ®
connectivity
Samba 3.2 is fully portable, POSIX compliant software that runs on a
variety of UNIX and UNIX-like systems including AIX ®, FreeBSD,
HPUX®, IRIX ®, Linux ®, Mac OS X ® and Solaris ®.
Samba is shipped as standard on all versions of Linux, and most of the
major vendors versions of UNIX as a fully supported part of the operating
system. Samba is the leading solution for Microsoft Windows ®
compatibility for embedded appliance and Network Attached Storage
vendors.
Getting Samba 3.2
Samba 3.2 is available now from the
Samba Web site and all
worldwide mirrors.
About the Samba Team
The Samba Team is a worldwide group of computer professionals working
together via the Internet to produce the highest quality Free Software
Windows (SMB/CIFS) server and client software. [Less]
Posted
8 days
ago
The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.2, a major
new release of the award-winning Free Software file and print server
suite for Microsoft Windows ® clients.
The evolution of the Samba platform
Samba
... [More]
3.2 builds upon the success of Samba 3.0 by modernizing and
enhancing the code whilst still retaining compatibility with all
existing Samba installations. Samba is the leading technology choice
for Windows file serving on UNIX ® platforms and in embedded Network
Attached Storage (NAS) solutions. Samba is used by vendors selling NAS
solutions ranging from high end clustered business-critical systems,
to low end consumer devices, and everything in between.
Clustered file server support
Samba 3.2, in conjunction with the
ctdb
libraries and a back-end distributed file system such as Sun's Lustre
®, IBM's GPFS ® or Red Hat's GFS ®, can provide a fully
clustered file server solution. Every node is able to simultaneously
serve an identical, consistent view of the exported file system. Not
just a simple "fail-over" high availability solution, Samba 3.2 with
ctdb provides a scalable clustered file server solution with full
Windows file sharing semantics. Samba and ctdb are already being
shipped in production file serving products to some of the most
demanding customers in the world in fields such as animation and video
production.
Easier configuration
Samba 3.2 introduces a 'registry' based configuration system. This
allows vendors embedding Samba in an appliance to more easily manage
Samba configuration via the supplied commands or library functions
without having to write scripts to modify a text file.
Improved Integration with Microsoft Windows ®
Samba 3.2 has been designed and tested to integrate with the latest
Microsoft Windows ® clients and servers, such as Windows Vista ®
service pack 1, and Windows server 2008 ®.
Encrypted network transport
An innovation created by the Samba Team, Samba 3.2 has extended the
CIFS/SMB protocol to allow transport encryption. File system shares
may now be marked as "encrypted" and all access to these shares is now
encrypted over the network. Standard GSSAPI encryption techniques are
used to safeguard the data. This extension to the CIFS/SMB protocol is
open and available for other vendors to adopt without requiring patent
licenses or other restrictions.
Reduced memory requirements
The memory footprint of Samba has been reduced by the use of the Samba
developed "talloc" library, in order to allow greater use of Samba in
embedded devices with limited memory requirements. All restrictions on
file name lengths have been removed.
IPv6 support
The networking functions have been re-written to ensure Samba 3.2 is
fully IPv6 compliant. Customers may now use Samba in an IPv6-only
network, and it has been tested to work with Microsoft Windows ®
IPv6 implementations as well as UNIX ® IPv6 implementations.
New library code
Samba 3.2 begins the migration of Samba from a monolithic application
to a more modular architecture comprised of library functions which
can be used to control and configure the Samba environment. The new
libnetapi library to control domain membership is one of the first
examples of this new approach.
New release manager
Samba 3.2 marks the debut of Karolin Seeger as our new release
manager, funded full time to work on Samba releases by
SerNet GmbH. The Samba Team is happy to
welcome Karolin as a Team member, and we hope that Karolin will be driving
our release process for many years to come.
Now Licensed under the GNU GPLv3
The Samba Team has adopted the Version 3 of the GNU General Public
License for the 3.2 and later releases. The GPLv3 is the updated
version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently
distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility with other
licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free
Software in the 21st Century.
The original announcement is available on-line at
Samba Adopts
GPLv3 for Future Releases.
Samba is the leading choice for Microsoft Windows ®
connectivity
Samba 3.2 is fully portable, POSIX compliant software that runs on a
variety of UNIX and UNIX-like systems including AIX ®, FreeBSD,
HPUX®, IRIX ®, Linux ®, Mac OS X ® and Solaris ®.
Samba is shipped as standard on all versions of Linux, and most of the
major vendors versions of UNIX as a fully supported part of the operating
system. Samba is the leading solution for Microsoft Windows ®
compatibility for embedded appliance and Network Attached Storage
vendors.
Getting Samba 3.2
Samba 3.2 is available now from the
Samba Web site and all
worldwide mirrors.
About the Samba Team
The Samba Team is a worldwide group of computer professionals working
together via the Internet to produce the highest quality Free Software
Windows (SMB/CIFS) server and client software. [Less]
Posted
8 days
ago
This is the first stable release of Samba 3.2.0.
Please be aware that Samba is now distributed under version 3
of the new GNU General Public License. You may refer to the COPYING
file that accompanies the release source for
... [More]
further licensing details.
The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA). The source code can be
downloaded
now. See the
release notes for more info. [Less]
Posted
8 days
ago
This is the first stable release of Samba 3.2.0.
Please be aware that Samba is now distributed under version 3
of the new GNU General Public License. You may refer to the COPYING
file that accompanies the release source for
... [More]
further licensing details.
The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA). The source code can be
downloaded
now. See the
release notes for more info. [Less]
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