Very nice work! Congrats to all of the Samba team on achieving such a great milestone!
Ricky On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Jeremy Allison <j...@samba.org> wrote: > Samba Team Releases Samba 4.0 > ============================= > > December 11th 2012. > > The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 4.0, a major > new release of the award-winning Free Software file, print and > authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. > > > The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server > ========================================================== > > As the culmination of ten years' work, the Samba Team has created the > first compatible Free Software implementation of Microsoft’s Active > Directory protocols. Familiar to all network administrators, the > Active Directory protocols are the heart of modern directory service > implementations. > > Samba 4.0 comprises an LDAP directory server, Heimdal Kerberos > authentication server, a secure Dynamic DNS server, and > implementations of all necessary remote procedure calls for Active > Directory. Samba 4.0 provides everything needed to serve as an Active > Directory Compatible Domain Controller for all versions of Microsoft > Windows clients currently supported by Microsoft, including the > recently released Windows 8. > > The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server provides support for > features such as Group Policy, Roaming Profiles, Windows > Administration tools and integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Free > Software compatible services such as OpenChange. > > The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server can also be joined to > an existing Microsoft Active Directory domain, and Microsoft Active > Directory Domain Controllers can be joined to a Samba 4.0 Active > Directory Compatible Server, showing true peer-to-peer > interoperability of the Microsoft and Samba implementations of the > Active Directory protocols. > > Acknowledging the value of the interoperability of the Samba 4.0 > Active Directory Compatible Server, Steve van Maanen, the co-founder > of Starsphere LLC, an IT services company in Tokyo, said: > > "Thanks to Samba4, I have two fully replicating Active Directory > Domain controllers that boot in under 10 seconds ! It is nice to have > alternatives, and Samba4 is a great one." > > Upgrade scripts are also provided for organizations using the previous > Microsoft Windows NT Domain Controller functionality in Samba 3.x, to > allow them to migrate smoothly to Samba 4.0. > > Suitable for low-power and embedded applications, yet scaling to large > clusters, Samba 4.0 is efficient and flexible. Its Python programming > interface and administration toolkit help in enterprise deployments. > > > Created Using Microsoft Documentation > ===================================== > > The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server was created with help > from the official protocol documentation published by Microsoft > Corporation and the Samba Team would like acknowledge the > documentation help and interoperability testing by Microsoft engineers > that made our implementation interoperable. > > "Active Directory is a mainstay of enterprise IT environments, and > Microsoft is committed to support for interoperability across > platforms," said Thomas Pfenning, director of development, Windows > Server. "We are pleased that the documentation and interoperability > labs that Microsoft has provided have been key in the development of > the Samba 4.0 Active Directory functionality." > > > Introducing SMB2.1 File Serving Support > ======================================= > > Samba 4.0 includes the first Free Software implementation of > Microsoft's SMB2.1 file serving protocol. Building on the success of > the SMB2.0 server in Samba 3.6, the Samba 4.0 file server component is > an evolution of the trusted Samba file serving code that is used > worldwide by vendors of file servers, such as IBM's clustered Scale > Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS), and many other commercial > products. > > In addition, the Samba 4.0 file server contains an initial > implementation of SMB3, which will be further developed in later Samba > 4 releases into a fully-featured SMB3 clustered file server > implementation. > > Future developments of our SMB3 server and client suite, in > combination with our expanding number of SMB3 tests, will keep driving > the performance improvements and improved compatibility with Microsoft > Windows that Samba users have come to expect from our software. > > > Integrated Clustered File Server Support > ======================================== > > Building on our success as the first commercial implementation of a > clustered SMB/CIFS server, Samba 4.0 provides industry-leading > scalability and performance as a clustered SMB2/SMB/CIFS file server, > using our "clustered tdb" (ctdb) technology - also available as Free > Software. > > Clustered Samba provides a "Single Server" view of clustered file > storage, allowing clients to connect to the least loaded server and > still providing a completely coherent view of the underlying clustered > file system. > > Written and tested to be compatible with most clustered file systems, > both Free Software and proprietary, Samba 4.0 with ctdb provides a > scalable clustered file server solution with full Windows file sharing > semantics. > > Samba and ctdb have been shipping in production file serving products > for many years, to some of the most demanding customers in the world. > > > Easy Integration into Existing Directory Services > ================================================= > > Samba 4.0 ships with an improved winbind, which allows Samba 4.0 file > servers to easily integrate into existing Active Directory services as > member servers. Both Microsoft Active Directory and Samba 4.0 Active > Directory Compatible servers are supported. > > > Stability, Security and Performance > =================================== > > Samba 4.0 has been tested using our widely accepted smbtorture test > suite, created by the Samba Team to test Samba itself and now used by > most of the companies writing SMB3/SMB2/SMB/CIFS file server software > to test their own products. We also regularly test interoperability > with other major vendors at plug-fest events to make sure Samba 4.0 > deployments work correctly with existing customer equipment. > > In addition, Samba is one of eleven open source projects that leading > software integrity vendor Coverity has certified as "secure" and has > reached Coverity "Integrity Rung 2" certification. > > The Samba Team provides immediate responses to any security > vulnerabilities, and provides fixes to all vendors using the Samba > code in coordination with industry standard security reporting > agencies. > > > A Modular Toolbox for OEM Vendor Needs > ====================================== > > As Free Software, Samba 4.0 is the ideal choice for Original Equipment > Manufacturers (OEMs) to use for their file, print and authentication > products. It is easily integrated into a whole host of different > tasks, and can be customized at will by the vendor to satisfy their > needs. > > In addition, Samba 4.0 includes a modular "Virtual File System" (VFS) > interface that vendors can use to quickly and efficiently customize > Samba to take advantage of any specific features of their underlying > technology without having to modify any of the core Samba code. From > advanced file systems to network traffic analysis, the Samba VFS layer > allows external code to be easily integrated with Samba. Example > modules are provided as source code for vendors to customize as they > wish. > > Samba is the leading choice for Microsoft Windows connectivity > ================================================================== > > Samba is the leading technology choice for Windows file serving on > Linux and UNIX platforms and in embedded Network Attached Storage > (NAS) solutions. Samba is used by vendors selling NAS solutions > ranging from high end clustered business-critical systems, to low end > consumer devices, and everything in between. Samba is fully IPv6 > enabled and meets all mandates for modern network interoperability. > > Commercial support is available for Samba from many different vendors. > > Getting Samba 4.0 > ================= > > Samba 4.0 source code is available now from the Samba Web site. > > http://www.samba.org > > About Active Directory > ====================== > > Microsoft Windows and Active Directory are trademarks of Microsoft > Corporation. > > About the Samba Team > ==================== > > The Samba Team is a worldwide group of computer professionals working > together via the Internet to produce the highest quality Free Software > Windows (SMB3/SMB2/SMB/CIFS) server and client software. We are the > undisputed experts in providing interoperability with computers > running Microsoft Windows. Members of the Samba Team work for many of > the largest companies in the software Industry and even helped > Microsoft produce the protocol documentation that fully specifies the > SMB/CIFS protocol. > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba