New Samba Features Improve Interoperability
Last week was maintenance week here in the labs, and one of the top items on my to-do list was upgrading Samba to the latest release. Recent changes to the network topology brought on some thorny inter-domain trust and cross-subnet browsing problems that needed ironing out, and "upgrade to the latest release" is practically an industry-wide prerequisite for getting any further assistance. So I did my duty and upgraded from 3.0.2 to 3.0.23C as a first effort.
As far as version increments go, that's a pretty small jump, and folks might assume that the differences between the releases probably only amount to a handful of modest bug fixes. But not in this case--there are several hundred bug fixes in the latest package (including some I needed), as well as some significant new functionality. All of this cumulatively makes Samba much more useful and usable on heterogeneous networks.
For starters, there are some significant improvements to the core Samba service, such as new support for BUILTIN/Users and BUILTIN/Administrators groups that make Samba more closely mimic traditional Windows security models. Samba also now has a gateway service that makes UNIX daemons appear as Windows services, thereby allowing administrators to use Windows management tools to start and stop UNIX services as needed. Another compelling feature in the current Samba release is the ability to map UNIX log files into Windows-style event logs, thereby allowing administrators to use Windows management tools to monitor systems and critical services from afar more easily.
What's most interesting about those latter two features in particular is that neither of them have much to do with traditional file-and-print services, which has long been Samba's bailiwick. Instead, they seek to make Samba look and feel more like a full-fledged member of the network.
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