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Samba is an open source software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public LicenseSamba News
- (11th November 1999) Samba 2.0.6 has been released. This is the latest official production
release of Samba-2. Get your copy from the download
page. Technical details on the changes in Samba 2.0.6 are available on the
announcements
page. The original Samba 2.0.0 Press Release may be found
here.
- (11th November) O'Reilly
have released their new book Using Samba under an
open content license! The book has been adopted by the Samba Team as
the "official" Samba book and we will strive to keep it up to
date. O'Reilly have sent us the full sources for the book and we will
be making it available online as soon as we can, we just need to work
out some formatting and conversion issues. We also plan to make it
directly accessible from SWAT. A huge thanks to O'Reilly for this
great step forward in the documentation of Samba!
- (28th September) SCO announced
this month that they are distributing Samba for UnixWare
7. They are also contributing some hardware to the Samba
Team. Thanks SCO!
- (21st September) VERITAS Software Corporation
have announced in a press release that they'll be shipping a fully supported
Samba on Solaris as part of their "VERITAS File Server Edition"
product. This is something the Samba Team have been working on for a
while behind the scenes, and it's great to see another company
adopt Open Source in their product.
are available now!
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