Samba 4.0 has been released
Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.
Samba is Free Software licensed under the GNU General Public License, the Samba project is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
Since 1992, Samba has provided secure, stable and fast file and print services for all clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol, such as all versions of DOS and Windows, OS/2, Linux and many others.
The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server
Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix Servers and Desktops into Active Directory environments using the winbind daemon.
Samba 4.0 ships with an
LDAP directory server, Heimdal Kerberos authentication server, a secure Dynamic DNS server, and implementations of all necessary remote procedure calls for Active Directory. Samba 4.0 provides everything needed to serve as an Active Directory Compatible Domain Controller for all versions of Microsoft Windows clients currently supported by Microsoft, including the recently released Windows 8.Aside from the usual stability, security and performance fixes, other highlights of this release are:
- Support for SMB2.1 file serving
- Support for integrated clustered file serving
- Easy integration into existing Directory Services
Since Samba 4.0 was just released today, it is not likely that it has hit your distribution’s repository, but the beta version should be already there. You may read the release notes here. Official Samba documentations are available here.
Download
The Samba source code is distributed via ftp and http. View the download area via HTTP. The file you probably want is called samba-latest.tar.gz. Old releases are available in the Samba archives.
The Samba distribution GPG public key can be used to verify that current releases have not been tampered with. Using GnuPG, simply download the Samba source distribution, the tarball signature, and the Samba distribution public key. Then run
$ gpg --import samba-pubkey.asc
$ gunzip samba-version.tar.gz
$ gpg --verify samba-release.tar.asc
gpg: Signature made Tue 20 Nov 2007 07:12:04 PM CST using \DSA key ID 6568B7EA
gpg: Good signature from "Samba Distribution Verification Key \ ‹samba-bugs@samba.org›
It is recommended that you also review the list of patches for current releases. For information on Samba security releases, please see our security page.
BinariesSamba binaries are available for many popular platforms. You can download them via httphere. Note that the latest version may not always be available for every platform.http://enterprisesamba.com/offers Samba packages for SLES, RHEL, and Debian. http://en.openSUSE.org/Sambaoffers Samba packages for all SuSE Linux products (including SLES). | Git, Subversion and CVS SourcesYou can also fetch the sources using a source code control system. The advantage of fetching via a version control system that you can update your sources at any time using a single command. See the Git instructions, Subversion instructions (historical) andCVS instructions (historical) for information on fetching the sources one of these tools. Please be aware that the CVS and SVN repositories are being maintained as archives only, and are not being updated. Active development is only taking place within the Git repository. | |||||
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https://www.samba.org/samba/news/releases/4.0.0.html
