Direct from SambaXP 2011, I have the pleasure to announce that the Debian experimental archive now carries packages for samba 3.6.0pre3. (actually, they were uploaded 1 hour ago and need tomake their way to mirror and they have to be picked by Debian autobuilder, particularly if you want packages for architectures other than i386) Instead of re-explaining how the Debian experimental archive is working, please allow me to point to a quite complete Wiki page about it: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental 3.6.* packages will remain in Debian experimental until the release of the final version of 3.6.0. Then, packages will be uploaded to Debian unstable, thus targeting the next Debian version (and indirectly flowing to Ubuntu, of course).