07/04/2003 — Samba is an Open Source program package that provides file and print services for Windows clients under Linux. The first beta version of Samba 3.0 was released for testing earlier this month.

SUSE's Premium Business Partner SerNet strongly contributes to the further development of the Samba project. Thanks to the close collaboration between SUSE and SerNet, SUSE Linux users can already benefit today from the important functional enhancements of Samba 3.0 on one of the stable Samba 2.2 versions.

That is possible because SerNet ported a significant improvement for the connection of Windows XP clients back to Samba 2.2.x. Amongst other things, this feature makes sure that the authentication of a MS Windows XP client with a Samba server does not require any additional modifications on the client system. Previously, this process required manual editing of the registry of all XP clients.

Ready-to-use RPMs for SUSE Linux are available at

ftp://ftp.SuSE.com/pub/projects/samba/

or

http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/SuSE/

Feel free to contact Lars Mueller <lmuelle+samba@SuSE.de

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