Samba 3.0 is out -near perfect Wintegration!

[CMonster]

http://us1.samba.org/samba/samba/wha...ssrelease.html


It's all there: Domains, Active Directory, Security

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Samba 3.0 fully implements Kerberos 5 authentication, SMB signing for tamper-proof file serving sessions, and SCHANNEL security for secure remote procedure calls. Samba 3.0 works "out of the box" with the improved security settings of Windows 2003 Domain Controllers.

[Dbest]

Has anyone given this version a try is it good? BTW thanks for the info Cmosnter I'm dowloading it right now .

[SpookyEddy]

Samba 3.0 seamlessly integrates into a Microsoft Active Directory domain in both native and mixed mode. Samba 3.0 provides single sign-on for UNIX ® / Linux ® clients in an Active Directory environment, allowing both servers and clients to transparently use Active Directory as an authentication and account source.

/me does a happy little dance.

Thanks for the link.

Regards

ed

[CMonster]

SpookyEddy -me too this is really big news!

People don't realize how big this is -I bet MS is fuming...

[SpookyEddy]

Finally I can run file servers for our AD domain without.....

a) buying extra MS licenses just to store data.
b) doing a full Win2k install.
c) running a GUI.

With a bit of luck I will get a test box running sometime next week.

Regards

ed

[nukes]

Looks nice. I don't really have the requirement for AD or Domains, so it doesn't help me much, but its good to see they're improving it even further.