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Announcing Samba version 2.2
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What is Samba?
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Samba is a SMB file server that runs on Unix and other operating
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systems. It allows these operating systems (currently Unix, Netware,
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OS/2 and AmigaDOS) to act as a file and print server for SMB and CIFS
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clients. There are many Lan-Manager compatible clients such as
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LanManager for DOS, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT, Windows 95,
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Linux smbfs, OS/2, Pathworks and more.
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The package also includes a SMB client for accessing other SMB servers,
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and an advanced netbios/WINS nameserver for browsing support.
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What can it do for me?
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If you have any PCs running SMB clients, such as a PC running Windows
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for Workgroups, then you can mount file space or printers on a Samba
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host, so that directories, files and printers on the host are
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available on the PC.
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If you have any SMB servers such as Windows NT Server, Warp Server or
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Pathworks you may be able to replace them by or supplement them with
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Samba. One of Samba's big strengths is integration, so you can use it
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to tie together your Unix (or VMS etc) hosts and PC clients. If you
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are tired of the insecurity, expense and instability of PCNFS then Samba
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may be for you.
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The client part of the package will also allow you to attach to other
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SMB-based servers (such as windows NT and windows for workgroups) so
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that you can copy files to and from your unix host. The client also
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allows you to access a SMB printer (such as one attached to an OS/2 or
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WfWg server) from Unix, using an entry in /etc/printcap, or by
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explicitly specifying the command used to print files.
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What are its features?
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Samba supports many features that are not supported in other SMB
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implementations (all of which are commercial). These include host as
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well as username/password security, a client, automatic home directory
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exporting, automatic printer exporting, dead connection timeouts,
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umask support, guest connections, name mangling and hidden and system
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attribute mapping. Look at the FAQs included with the package for
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a full list of features.
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What's new since 2.0?
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Lots of stuff. See the change log and man pages for details.
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In particular, please check the WHATSNEW.txt file in the root directory
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of each release. This file has current change/update information.
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Where can I get a client for my PC?
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There is a free client for MS-DOS based PCs available from
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ftp.microsoft.com in the directory bussys/Clients/MSCLIENT/. Please
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read the licencing information before downloading. The add-on 32-bit
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TCP/IP Windows for Workgroups client is also very good. Windows 95/98/ME,
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Windows NT/2000 and OS/2 come with suitable clients by default.
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What network protocols are supported?
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Currently only TCP/IP is supported. There has been some discussion
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about ports to other protocols but nothing is yet available.
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There is a free TCP/IP implementation for Windows for Workgroups
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available from ftp.microsoft.com (it's small, fast and quite reliable).
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How much does it cost?
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Samba software is free software. It is available under the
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GNU Public licence in source code form at no cost. Please read the
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file COPYING that comes with the package for more information.
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What operating systems does it support?
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The code has been written to be as portable as possible. It has been
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"ported" to many unixes, which mostly required changing only a few
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lines of code. It has been run (to my knowledge) on at least these
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unixes:
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Linux, SunOS, Solaris, SVR4, Ultrix, OSF1, AIX, BSDI, NetBSD,
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Sequent, HP-UX, SGI, FreeBSD, NeXT, ISC, A/UX, SCO, Intergraph,
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Silicon Graphics Inc., Domain/OS and DGUX.
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Some of these have received more testing than others. If it doesn't
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work with your unix then it should be easy to fix. It has also been ported
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to Netware, OS/2 and the Amiga. A VMS port is available too. See the web site
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for more details.
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Who wrote it?
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Many people on the internet have contributed to the development of
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Samba. The maintainer and original author is Andrew Tridgell, but
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large parts of the package were contributed by several people from all
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over the world. Please look at the file `change-log' for information
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on who did what bits.
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Where can I get it?
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The package is available via anonymous ftp from samba.org in
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the directory pub/samba/.
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What about SMBServer?
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Samba used to be known as SMBServer, until it was pointed out that
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Syntax, who make a commercial Unix SMB based server, have trademarked
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that name. The name was then changed to Samba. Also, in 1992 a very
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early incarnation of Samba was distributed as nbserver.
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If you see any copies of nbserver or smbserver on ftp sites please let
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me or the ftp archive maintainer know, as I want to get them deleted.
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Where can I get more info?
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Please join the mailing list if you want to discuss the development or
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use of Samba. To join the mailing list, please read the instructions
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at http://lists.samba.org/
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There is also often quite a bit of discussion about Samba on the
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newsgroup comp.protocols.smb.
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A WWW site with lots of Samba info can be found at
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http://samba.org/samba/
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The Samba Team (Contact: samba@samba.org)
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March 2001
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