Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
Linux Software

Samba 2.0 Released 31

Posted by justin++ from the a-better-nt-than-nt? dept.
Courtesy Linux Weekly News. Samba 2.0 has been released. Samba is a fully Y2K-compliant and supported "file and print server suite" for Linux, and an often cited free software success story (it is GPL). 2.0 adds the ability to "integrate seamlessly into an existing Windows NT domain". See the press release (with an amazing benchmark relult at the head), or the Samba project home page for more info.
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Samba 2.0 Released More

Samba 2.0 Released

Comments Filter:
  • and the ability to change user passwords on
    any Samba or Microsoft Windows NT ® server.

    Aww, still can't change passwords from the user's NT/95 via the usual means for those systems? I assume they mean the User Mangler for Domains when they mention NT server. Wouldn't it use the same messages when changing the password via NT/95 workstations?

    Still, good job samba people.
  • Posted by The Famous Brett Watson:

    The MIS department of my illustrious employer uses the dreaded MS Proxy thing, so I'd be most interested in this. So far, however, I haven't even been able to persuade them to allow a Linux box on the main network at all. Even if I did, I wouldn't be much help, since they'd put a bullet through it the moment it put out a packet on the network that BSOD'd one of their NT boxen, and I figure the chances of that are pretty high during development of such a client.

    Summary: interesting concept; I'd want it, but I very much doubt I could help with development.

  • Samba 2.0, Kernel 2.2.0, and various other goodies like Gnome 1.0 and KDE 1.1 (maybe Wine will even hit beta stage!)

    It would be great to have a sneak peak at what my Linux box will be running come Jan 1, 2000 (in my cabin in the mountains sleeping on a matress stuffed with small denomonation bills, with a well and solar electricity....)
    ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^ ~~^~~~^~~^~
    ABORTED effort:
    Close all that you have.
  • Anyone got a link to the E450 that the first 'Customer' spoke abt:
    "The server (a Sun E450) is humming..."

    just wanna check and see what they're runnin compared to what we're runnin.
    Thnx
  • As soon as I am able to say in the smb.conf that this share is accessable by xxx NT group, and those members can get in, all the crap I've had to stick on NT servers for ease of management goes bye-bye.

    Great work guys.
  • Samba is great. We use it at the big company where I work so the web people can easily drag and drop new content from their PC's to our web server. Samba just runs like a champ. To anyone who has been putting off using Samba in a Windows environment, take the plunge! It takes configuration, but after that you'll be like the Maytag repairman--nothing to fix for years.
  • Congratulations to one of the most effective, responsive, and intelligent coding teams on the net. Congratulations to everybody who has submitted code, who has provided bug reports, and who has evangelized this product(cept me, cuz I don't wanna pat myself on the back :-).


    Once you pull the pin, Mr. Grenade is no longer your friend.
  • net neighborhood is flaky.

    I'm no net neighborhood expert, but here's how I understand the situation:

    Usually there's a browse master that "keeps track" of all of the SMB machines, and it refreshes its list occasionally. This list is what shows up in everyone's net neighborhood window. If your missing machine didn't get seen in the last refresh, it's not on the list.

    Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

    It's just flaky.
  • We can be confident that 2.0 will be even better!

    Go Team SAMBA!
  • Comment removed based on user account deletion

  • NT 4.2 (Score:1)

    by aqua ( 3874 )
    One of my favorite bits is how, in the NT server manager, the machine shows up as "NT Server 4.2". I showed that to the author of "NT Server Internals," who suggested that the 4.2 was the result of a failed hash lookup in the registry. Sounded like random RAM sections to me, which wasn't substantiated by the evidence. Anyway, I set the machine description to "My version is bigger than yours."

    Congratulations to the Samba team. A great piece of software gets better. :)

  • new samba (Score:1)

    by ink ( 4325 )
    Be sure both machines are in the same workgroup
    and that the Windows' WINS properties are
    pointing to your nmbd server.


    The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.

  • "Samba 2.0 has been benchmarked using the Ziff-Davis NetBench ® benchmarking suite, as the world's fastest Windows server..."

    Their benchmark. Sweet! Think we'll see it in print?

  • hey.. i was wondering if anyone is working on a Ms-Proxy Server smb client for unixs.
    (for those of you not forced to work behind a MS firewall, the ms-proxy client raps up all tcp/udp/imcp(sortaof) traffic into a smb packet, which is routed to the ms-proxy server, which then sends the native packets on there way...sorta of a goffy microsoft ip-masq implementation)


    If not..
    I have looked at the msproxy client traffic with a packet sniffer and it doesnt look to bad (of course we're using version 1. something.. and i know ver 2.x of MSproxy uses a new Proxy Client)... I have considered attempting to write one my self...i think it would be a challenge.. but possible ...but i have not though it out to far..

    Any thoughts?

    (ps baggering the powers that be to ditch the NT server and use a linux solution..for our firewall/webserver ect..)
    -greg

  • SWAT (Score:1)

    by Icy ( 7612 )
    Has anybody gotten SWAT to work with RedHat 5.x? I've been trying forever. It just will not accept my password. I've gotten it to work on my FreeBSD machine, but I've been unable to get it to work on my 3 RedHat Linux boxes (5.0-5.2). All set up the same.
  • Pretty damn cool. Always knew Samba was cool. Very impressed (though not surprised) on the benchmarks. I'll have to play around with it to see how well it works and how nicely it integrates with NT, for that matter, Netware since I saw the binaries for that as well.
  • what's the samba benchmark of 193mbits/s compared to NT's? twice as fast? or much higher?

    i'd like to get as much info how this is better than NT so i can convince the school district here to switch to a linux implementation without changing all the clients...
  • Not that it will matter much because the Open Source Community can code around Microsoft anyday...but trust me...they will try..
    They did it before...

    Cheers,
    Nick
    LSG
  • which brings up an interesting question:
    is "Park Place" in the network neighborhood?
    How bout' "Boardwalk"? Certainly "Jail" should be there....(Sorry, too much caffiene)
  • wow! server software doesnt have to be bloated???
    If microsoft hears this I'm sure the FUD will start flying! :It's only a few megabytes, a real server package has to be 100meg or more and require quad processors to do the Job... wanna see NT5.0?"
  • Has anyone here managed to get smbmount to work on 2.2.x kernels .. I cant get it to do anything but error out. I was wondering if someone has a patch or anything.


    talking windows users is where I draw the line ..
  • the compile fails when I link it to the 2.2.0 headers. Is there any other way to mount the windows partition with linux so I can use it like a regular mounted partition without using smbmount?


    talking windows users is where I draw the line ..
  • Um, don't you mean the main Australian site? The main server is located in Aussie, not the US.
  • 193MBits.

    Just more proof that the NT in Windows NT stands for No Throughput!
  • The press release says that Samaba 2.0 implements the NT Domain authentication protocols:

    Samba 2.0 features the first non-Microsoft
    implementation of the Windows NT Domain
    authentication protocols, allowing a Samba 2.0
    server to be seamlessly integrated into an
    existing Windows NT Domain.

    But the README says:

    In addition, there are outstanding (known) bugs
    with using Samba as a PDC in this release that
    the Samba Team are actively working on. For this
    reason we have chosen not to advertise and
    actively support Primary Domain Controller
    functionality with this release.

    It seems like they are publicizing it. Or does the
    2.0 release do something other than PDC emulation?

Slashdot Top Deals

Elliptic paraboloids for sale.

Close