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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
- Another Samba book by members of the Samba Team.
SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours, by Jerry Carter and Richard Sharpe was published in the US on 20-Apr-1999. More details here. - Those crazy people at Sm@rt Reseller have done it again! This time they benchmarked Samba on Pacific HiTech Linux against Novell NetWare 5.0 on the same hardware. Out of the box, Samba and PHT Linux delivered 43% more throughput than NetWare 5.0. Read the full story here.
- Sm@rt Reseller has published a review of Samba 2.0 as a followup to their earlier story. Their verdict? "For basic Server Message Block file and print serving, Samba can't be beat. No ifs, ands or buts.". Read the full story here.
- ZD Net/PC Week has published a review of Samba on an SGI Origin 200 platform. They say "The Origin/Samba combo kicked up astounding performance numbers.". The review may be found at "Samba up-tempo performer.".
- Samba 2.0.3 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 2.0.3 are available on the announcements page. The original Samba 2.0.0 Press Release may be found here.
- A benchmarking lab within Sun Microsystems has done benchmarks on Samba on a Sun E450. The statement they gave to the Samba Team may be seen here.
- Sm@rt Reseller has published a benchmark comparing NT with Samba+Linux. The results show Samba way ahead.
- PC Week has also published a benchmark of Samba on a Linux 2.2 kernel on a 4 processor VA Research server. The results show Samba to be impressive.
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