Samba 3.6 Released With SMB2 Support

Jeremy Allison - Sam wrote in to let us know the Samba project has made a major new release. The main highlight is support for SMB 2.0 which was released as part of Windows Vista. There are a number of other improvements to printing support, clustering, and identity mapping; details can be found in the release notes.

Re:SMB 2.0

[gad_zuki!]

Microsoft contributes to Samba and sees it as a necessary product. For mindlessly evil patent abuse, please visit your local Apple store, thanks.

Context for moderators

[tepples]

Among fans of classic video games, "SMB2" refers to the video game Super Mario Bros. 2: Mario Madness for Nintendo Entertainment System. It was the first game where Peach (then known only as Princess Toadstool) was playable. There is another game also called Super Mario Bros. 2: The Lost Levels, a mission-pack sequel to the original Super Mario Bros. that took a long time to get released outside Japan. This one is abbreviated "SMB2 (J)".

Jokes about classic Mario games have been around since the dawn of Samba.

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Re:so does it handle subnets yet ??

[Jeremy Allison - Sam]

We've handled that case since the mid 1990's...

Jeremy.

Re:rdesktop

[dannyof47]

Try the fork FreeRDP [freerdp.com]. A lot of problems with rdesktop have been fixed.

Re:I am glad to hear.

[Jeremy Allison - Sam]

You don't need likewise-open (which might now be better named "likewise-closed" as it's been sold off to another company, probably to "monetize" all the suckers who installed the "free" version :-). Winbindd which ships with Samba will do the authentication and is developed and tested in conjunction with the rest of Samba.

Jeremy.

Re:SMB2 and databases

[iCassius]

KB link, with hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028965 [microsoft.com]