Download Samba 3.0.12

Samba has been updated to version number 3.0.12. This piece of software allows file and printer services to be seamlessly delivered to networks that include both SMB– if CIFSclients. The release notes are up this one page and below are a brief summary of the most important improvements:

Common bugs fixed in 3.0.12 include:

• Winbind failures when using ‘disable netbios = yes’
• Failure to establish a trust relationship via ‘net rpc trust establish’
• Various portability & compiler issues.
• Read only file deletion failure caused by new delete semantics in Windows XP SP2 and the MS 04-044 security hotfix.
• Error messages from shared Excel workbooks residing on Samba file shares.
• Missing files in the output of smbclient -c ‘dir’ when run against Windows file servers.
• Inability for Print Administrators to pause/resume/purge print queues.

Additional features introduced in Samba 3.0.12:

• Performance enhancements when serving directories containing large number of files.
• MS-DFS support added to smbclient.
• More performance improvements when using Samba/OpenLDAP based DC’s via the ‘ldapsam:trusted=yes’ option.
• Support for the Novell NDS universal password when using the ldapsam passdb backend.
• New ‘net rpc trustdom ” rel=”external”>add,del’ functionality to eventually replace ‘smbpasswd ” rel=”external”>-a,-x -i’.
• New libsmbclient functionality.