lug-bg: Samba 3.0 - Mno'o Yako !

[Ivaylo Toshev <ivo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.0, a major
new release of the award-winning Open Source/Free Software file and
print server suite for Microsoft Windows (R) clients.

Replacement of Windows NT4 (R) Domains

Samba 3.0 contains the first Open Source/Free Software implementation of
Windows NT Primary and Backup Domain Controller functionality. Customers
can transparently migrate their existing Windows NT domains to Samba 3.0
whilst keeping their existing user and group account databases. This
enables significant cost of ownership savings over a Windows NT4 domain
as a Samba 3.0 Domain Controller does not require client access
licenses. Existing Windows tools can be used to manage a Samba PDC,
allowing customer Windows expertise to be leveraged in a domain
migration. A choice of LDAP back-ends allows integration with an
existing customer directory service.

Single Sign-on with Active Directory (R)Integration

Samba 3.0 seamlessly integrates into a Microsoft Active Directory domain
in both native and mixed mode. Samba 3.0 provides single sign-on for
UNIX (R) / Linux (R) clients in an Active Directory environment,
allowing both servers and clients to transparently use Active Directory
as an authentication and account source. Domain trust relationships are
fully supported, allowing Samba 3.0 Controlled Domains to integrate
easily into any Active Directory environment.

Complete Integration with Windows Security

Samba 3.0 fully implements Kerberos 5 authentication, SMB signing for
tamper-proof file serving sessions, and SCHANNEL security for secure
remote procedure calls. Samba 3.0 works "out of the box" with the
improved security settings of Windows 2003 Domain Controllers.

A Global File and Print Server

As Samba is a global project, internationalization support is an
important feature. Samba 3.0 now implements UNICODE character sets on
the wire, allowing clients using any character set to connect to a
single file server and store names in their native character sets. David
de Leeuw. Head, Medical Computing UnitBen Gurion University of the
Negev, Israel wrote: "With the release of Samba 3 we are able for the
first time to store our files on the computer servers in any language we
want. File names in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and scores of
other languages, used by our staff and students, mix without problems
thanks to the great new UNICODE support of Samba."

Scalable Printing

Samba 3.0 has been tested in production supporting thousands of print
queues with tens of thousands of simultaneous print jobs, providing the
most scalable Windows printing solution on the market. Samba 3.0 fully
supports the Windows "point-and-print" driver download feature, allowing
Samba 3.0 to provide a transparent Windows printing experience.

Comprehensive Documentation

Samba 3.0 ships with the second edition of "Using Samba" by Jay Ts,
Robert Eckstein, and David Collier-Brown (O'Reilly & Associates(R)).
Many thanks to the authors and publisher for making "Using Samba"
available under the GNU Free Documentation License.In addition, the
Samba HOWTO documentation collection has been updated and improved by
John H. Terpstra, Jelmer R. Vernooij and others. As well being freely
available in the Samba 3.0 release it will be released in a forthcoming
book, "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide", to be published
by Prentice Hall (R).

Award Winning Linux/UNIX and Windows Integration

Samba has won many awards for providing Windows and Linux/UNIX
connectivity. Last year, Samba was awarded the Innovation in
Infrastructure prize in the "Enterprise Software" category by eWeek and
PC Magazine, beating out such competitors as the Java 2 Platform. David
A. Licosati, Vice President, InoStor Corporation said: "Samba 3.0 goes
beyond expectations. The team's work allows us to penetrate markets and
open up new areas of deployments heretofore unobtainable."

Samba is the leading choice for Windows connectivity

Samba 3.0 is fully portable, POSIX compliant software that runs on a
variety of UNIX and UNIX-like systems including AIX (R), DG/UX
(R),FreeBSD, HPUX(R), IRIX (R), Linux (R), Mac OS X (R) and Solaris(R).
Samba is shipped as standard on all versions of Linux, and most of the
major vendors versions of UNIX as a fully supported part of the
operating system. 

Getting Samba 3.0

Samba 3.0 is available now from the Samba Web site and all worldwide
mirrors.www.samba.org

About the Samba Team

The Samba Team is a worldwide group of computer professionals
workingtogether via the Internet to produce the highest quality
OpenSource/Free Software Windows (SMB/CIFS) server software.




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