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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Heads up everyone, After a long wait (4 months since 2.2.5 and numerous bug fixes later), the final planned 2.2 release is here. With this release Samba 2.2 is now officially in maintenance mode only. The only fixes that will be accepted to the SAMBA_2_2 cvs branch are those which fix critical bugs in basic functionality. It's time to move on

Folks, We have just posted Samba 2.2.6rc2 (don't ask me about rc1... I'm still a little bitter about). It all goes well, 2.2.6 is just around the corner.... Source tarballs at http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/pre/ and RedHat RPMS for testing at http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/redhat/ Mirrors will be updated shortly. -- Enjoy, The SAMBA Team

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 2.2.7. A security hole has been discovered in versions 2.2.2 through 2.2.6 of Samba that could potentially allow an attacker to gain root access on the target machine. The word "potentially" is used because there is no known exploit of this bug, and the Samba Team has not been able

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 2.2.7. A security hole has been discovered in versions 2.2.2 through 2.2.6 of Samba that could potentially allow an attacker to gain root access on the target machine. The word "potentially" is used because there is no known exploit of this bug, and the Samba Team has not been able

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We've just posted a preview release of Samba 2.2.8 on samba.org. This is a non-production release provided for testing only. The final 2.2.8 will only include bug fixes for the 2.2.7a release. The source code can be downloaded from : http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/pre/ The unpcompressed tarball and patch file have been signed using

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, werner maes wrote: > Can you tell me where to find the change that is necessary to enable dfs > on xp clients in samba 2.2.8? Has this fix been introduced in the latest > 2.2.8a? Here's the patch to fix msdfs & WinXP clients. This was not included in 2.2.8a (only security fixes there), but is already checked

Mr. Carter, I just tried the most current CVS head and IT DOES NOT FIX the problem. Can you guys look into this? Like I stated earlier, 2.2.7a works perfectly but I need to upgrade samba for security fixes, etc.. Thanks. Michael D. Brown Sr. Network Administrator Mesa Associates, Inc. 256.772.7025 >>> "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" <jerry@samba.org> Thursday, April 17, 2003

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 2.2.7a. This is the latest stable release of Samba and the version that all production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. The source code can be downloaded from : http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/ in the file samba-2.2.7a.tar.gz or samba-2.2.7a.tar.bz2. Both

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 2.2.7a. This is the latest stable release of Samba and the version that all production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. The source code can be downloaded from : http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/ in the file samba-2.2.7a.tar.gz or samba-2.2.7a.tar.bz2. Both

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FYI.... I just uploaded an [S]RPM for RedHat 8.0. See http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/redhat/ The 2.2.6-2 is only because I had to change the spec file a little for build on RedHat 8. Many thanks to Axel Thimm for clueing me in on the problem with the 'x' bit for files in examples/ & docs/ The mirrors will update

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This release provides an important security fix outlined in the release notes that follow. This is the latest stable release of Samba and the version that all production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. The source code can be downloaded from : http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/ in the file samba-2.2.8.tar.gz or

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This release provides an important security fix outlined in the release notes that follow. This is the latest stable release of Samba and the version that all production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. The source code can be downloaded from : http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/ in the file samba-2.2.8.tar.gz or

Just tought I'd follow up and see if 2.2.6 is truly the last release of samba_2_2 CVS branch. We've got six systems running it with no visible issues. I'm currently testing CVS from Sunday's pull of 3.0...is this the direction I should be heading? Bill

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Heads up everyone.... This is a preview snapshot of SAMBA_2_2 cvs branch. This is a non-production release provided for testing purposes only. Hopefully this will be the last RC before the final release but you never know until you taste it. Please note the modified and removed parameters. ( Changes since 2.2.6rc3 ) 83) Fix infinite looping

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Heads up everyone. The 3.0alpha21 snapshot has been placed on samba.org for download and will be available on mirrors shortly. RedHat RPMS will be uploaded within the hour I think. Just a remember that this release is provided for testing purposes only. And testing with no feedback does us no good. :-) The full WHATSNEW file is available at

FYI... We've put up a snapshot of the current SAMBA_2_2 code as 2.2.6pre1 for testing. The distribution is available from http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/pre/samba-2.2.6pre1.tar.bz2 ( a gzipped version is also available ). This is a non-production release made available for testing purposes only. The relavant section of the release notes follow. The full test is available from

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a release candidate snapshot of the Samba 3.0.5 code base and should be considered for testing only. A release candidate (RC) means that we are close to the final, stable release and in provided for Quality Assurance (QA) purposes. This release is *not* intended for production servers. Use at your own risk. There have been several bug fixes

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This is a release candidate snapshot of the Samba 3.0.5 code base and should be considered for testing only. A release candidate (RC) means that we are close to the final, stable release and in provided for Quality Assurance (QA) purposes. This release is *not* intended for production servers. Use at your own risk. There have been several bug fixes

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Samba Team is proud to announce the availability of the second release candidate of the Samba 3.0.0 code base. A release candidate implies that the code is very close to a final release, but remember that this is still a non-production snapshot intended for testing purposes. Use it at your own risk. The source code can be downloaded from :

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Samba Team is proud to announce the availability of the second release candidate of the Samba 3.0.0 code base. A release candidate implies that the code is very close to a final release, but remember that this is still a non-production snapshot intended for testing purposes. Use it at your own risk. The source code can be downloaded from :