Download Samba 3.2.0-pre1

Samba runs on Unix, BSD and Linux based servers and is able to provide file and printer services to Windows clients through the so-called ‘Common Internet File System‘ protocol. A few days ago, the developers released the first version of Samba 3.2.0 released. The new branch of Samba not only has new features and bug fixes, but in addition, the 3.2.0 series is also made available under the GPLv3 License. Below is the changelog of Samba 3.2.0-pre1 posted:

File Serving:

• Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC interfaces.
• Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS.
• Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
• Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
• Experimental support for file serving clusters.

Winbind and Active Directory Integration:

• Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts and one-way domain trusts
• Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS lookups.
• Support in pam_winbind for logging on using the userPrincipalName.
• Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls.
• Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy.

Users & Groups:

• New ldb backend for local group mapping tables
• Raised level of security defaults for authentication operations.

Documentation:

• Inclusion of an HTML version of the 3rd edition of “Using Samba” from O’Reilly Publishing.