Samba Team Announces Samba 1.9.17 ================================ Greater speed and scalability for corporate networks with Windows-compatible clients Canberra, Australia, August 26 1997 - The Samba Team is pleased to announce version 1.9.17 of Samba, the leading suite of corporate network integration tools. Designed to service any Server Message Block (SMB) client, Samba is compatible with all Microsoft (tm) Networking clients including Windows 95 (tm), Windows NT (tm) Workstation and Server, Windows for Workgroups (tm), IBM OS/2 (tm), smbfs for Linux and Thursby Software Systems DAVE (tm) Macintosh SMB client. Samba is distinguished by its scalability, speed and flexibility. It is freely distributed with source code, and has high-quality support. Over ninety specialist support companies worldwide offer commercial support for Samba, which is also supported by copious Internet resources and a mailing list with ten thousand subscribers. Sites with Microsoft Windows NT or Windows 95 clients benefit particularly from this new release. Samba now functions as a logon server for Windows 95 and supports roving profiles. Already a favorite with administrators because of its flexible and dynamic configuration options, version 1.9.17 of Samba has even more reasons for being used to serve files and printers to Microsoft clients. Samba has an assured future. With many hundreds of thousands of installed systems around the world, Samba is making it possible for many kinds of systems to share files that have been incompatible until now. The Samba Team has been consulting widely with large (and small) users of the product about future directions for Samba and will be publishing a road-map with the next major release. Anyone wishing to provide input should send a message to the mailing list samba-plans@samba.anu.edu.au. Besides this, the next release will focus on better integration of non-UNIX ports, further performance improvements and scalability to hundreds of thousands of machines in an SMB network. Also in release 1.9.17 of Samba: CIFS Support Samba implements the Common Internet Filesystem protocol, the Internet Engineering Task Force draft protocol for extending SMB to the Internet. Samba keeps pace with CIFS developments. See http://samba.anu.edu.au/cifs. More speed Samba now passes the most rigorous Ziff-Davis NetBench test suite with flying colors. Performance is not lost when more users are added, up to the limits of the host operating system. When used with technologies such 64-bit operating systems (such as some versions of UNIX, MVS or VMS), many CPUs and Gibabit ethernet, pre-release versions of Samba 1.9.17 have been running for some months at several large sites supporting tens of thousands of users. More servers Samba runs on UNIX (tm) and near clones from over 30 vendors, besides IBM MVS (tm), Digital Equipment VMS (tm), Stratos VOS (tm), all versions of IBM OS/2 Warp (tm), Novell Netware (tm), Amiga OS (tm) and others. Most corporate data servers are supported, besides countless small networks running less powerful operating systems. More clients Windows NT, Windows 95, Linux, OS/2 Warp, Windows for Workgroups come with SMB network file systems by default. Windows 3.1, DOS, AIX and others have equivalent add-ons. Different SMB clients have different extensions and different bugs. Samba goes to great lengths to accommodate clients that are in use, and is now more compatible with more types of clients than any other SMB server. Larger networks Release 1.9.17 provides support for over 2,000 clients simultaneously per samba server. Many Samba servers of this scale can work together. Some sites have shown that a user database of 100 000 users shared between 20 servers works. We do not know what the upper limit is, although we plan to find out. The Samba Team has been focusing on providing reliable wide-area operation, and acknowledges the support of major UNIX system vendors who have helped in testing on large WANs. Better Browsing This release improves Samba maintenance of browse lists (the Network Neighborhood), especially across large multi-segmented networks. Samba can provide a picture of what machines are available on even very large networks, beyond the scope of any other SMB product. More Information and Downloading -------------------------------- For more information on Samba see http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba Demand for Samba is very high. For a faster download and to minimize Internet traffic over the period following this release, please use a Samba mirror site. The list of mirror sites is contained in ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/MIRRORS.txt. The official master ftp location is ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/samba-latest.tar.gz Some of the products mentioned in this document are registered trademarks of other companies. The samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au address referred to in this release is *not* to be used for general enquiries or support requests. See the web pages for information about the general Samba mailing list and a listing of commercial support providers. Thanks ------ This release of Samba was made possible with the generous help of the following companies (in alphabetical order): Aquasoft Pty Ltd. : http://www.aquasoft.com.au Red Hat Software. : http://www.redhat.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. : http://www.sgi.com. Whistle Communications : http://www.whistle.com Please note that this does not imply endorsement of Samba by the above named companies. Samba Team members ------------------ The Samba Team are (in alphabetical order) : Jeremy Allison - Whistle Communications Paul Blackman - University of Canberra Dave Fenwick - Asset Software Chris Hertel - University of Minnisota Peter Kelly - ETS Luke Leighton - Pires Richard Sharpe - NS Computer Software Dan Shearer - University of South Australia John Terpstra - Aquasoft Pty Ltd. Andrew Tridgell - Australian National University Volker Lendeke - Service Network, GmbH. Copying ------- Unrestricted reproduction rights of this press release are granted, so long as it remains clear that: i) Samba is copyright by Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team, 1992-1997 ii) Samba is made available freely under the widely-used GNU public license. A copy of this is at ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/COPYING This license encourages commercial use and modification. The only restriction is that all source code incorporating Samba must always be freely available iii) The contact for all issues related to intellectual property rights for Samba is samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
> From Windows 95, I type "net time \\computername" and I get error 59, an > unexpected error has occured (surprise surprise), quit all running > programs and restart your computer then try again. Of course, doing this > has no effect. >The first thing that occurs to me (which might be completely wrong) is to check your nameserving on the new machine. Samba only accepts connections from named hosts and it is possible that the new server has an incorrectly configured DNS - try pinging the clients by name to see if they're addressable. The error messages I received when I discovered this are different from what your log files show, but it's worth a look I guess. Tim -- Tim Villa Faculties of Economics & Commerce, Education and Law Network/Systems Officer The University of Western Australia Phone: +61-08-9380-1796 Fax: +61-08-9380-1068 <mailto:tim@ecel.uwa.edu.au> <http://ecel-tim.ecel.uwa.edu.au>
Jeremy Allison <jallison@whistle.com> wrote: : Samba Team Announces Samba 1.9.17 : ================================: : Greater speed and scalability for corporate networks with : Windows-compatible clients Yeesss!!! Thank you *very much* folks!!! I really appreciate your work. Regards, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9430323
Hernan Pastoriza
1997-Aug-27 12:53 UTC
File ownership problems...Solaris 2.5.1 and Samba 1.9.17alpha5
I can't give an answer to this but maybe give another hint to the great developers of the samba team. I have a Linux 2.0.24 + samba 1.9.16p11 serving W95,WfW and DOS machines. Everything works very well but there is a small thing that bothers me a little. Some of the smbd process are owned by root. Contrary to the original message, there are no problems with ownership of the created files, so samba knows who is logged. Although this it's OK for our trusted network may be it can bring a security hole in the system. I think (looking in the log files) that this happens when there is a validation failure of the clients and samba tries again (because the password level=5). I didn't look at the code but probably in this sequence is skipping the drop of root uid. I hope this helps, Hernan