From: Jeremy Allison <jra@cygnus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: New version of Samba - 1.9.16p11
Date: 4 Mar 1997 22:35:08 GMT
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
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The Samba Team are pleased to announce a new version of the Samba SMB File 
Server product for UNIX systems.

This new release improves support for the recently released Microsoft
Office 97(tm) and Windows NT 4.0(tm) products, as well as better integration
with the Microsoft 'Network Neighborhood' browser. Additionaly, this release
includes support for Western European Languages in filenames served by Samba,
allowing Western European users of Microsoft Windows(tm) products to store
native language filenames on their UNIX file servers.

Samba is a suite of programs available under the GNU General Public License 
which work together to allow clients to access to a servers filespace and 
printers via the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol used by Microsoft 
Windows NT(tm), Windows 95(tm), Windows for Workgroups(tm) and MS-DOS(tm)
operating systems and also the IBM(tm) OS/2 operating system.

Initially written for UNIX, Samba now also runs on Novell Netware(tm), 
IBM OS/2(tm) and DEC's VMS(tm) and has been ported to over 27 varieties of 
UNIX, ranging from Linux to Cray Supercomputers. Samba has a user base 
of over one thousand commercial enterprises, including many of the USA 
Fortune 500 companies, and is widely regarded as the most popular UNIX SMB 
server in use today.

Although this is a new minor version release, there have been
many bugfixes and improvements from previous releases. These 
include but are not limited to :

1).  A rewrite of the user identity handling mechanism. This
should improve compatibility of Samba with Windows NT 4.0, several
users had reported problems in this area.

2). A rewrite of the file handling and locking mechanisms.
This should remove the problems Samba users were having using
Samba with Microsoft Office and other suites. File locking 
should now be much more reliable.

3). Improvements in the functionality of the browsing
daemon (nmbd). nmbd's browser capabilities will now register 
properly with an arbitrary  WINS server. This means that Samba
will now act properly as a domain master browser. Samba now collates
lists of servers on broadcast-isolated subnets, makes them available
to the entire wide area network, visible in the network neighbourhood
on Windows 95 and Windows NT machines.

4). Support for Western European languages in filenames. This means
that Western European versions of Windows 95 and NT should be able to
create and view files with native language filenames (8 bit clean
filename support).

5). Many, many bugfixes from around the 'net, around the world.
The Samba Team would like to thank anyone who submitted a bug
report, or a patch for Samba.

As always, all bugs are our sole responsibility :-).
Please report them to

samba-bugs@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au

The new version is available as source code via anonymous ftp as a 
GNU gziped tar file from
 
ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/samba-1.9.16p11.tar.gz

and should be available from mirror sites throughout
the world shortly. For details see the main Web site 
for information about Samba, at :

http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba

Regards,

The Samba Team

Who are :

	Andrew Tridgell (Keeper of the source).

And in alphabetical order.

	Jeremy Allison
        Paul Blackman 
	Geoff Day 
        Peter Kelly 
        Luke Leighton  
        Volker Lendecke
	Richard Sharpe
	Dan Shearer
	John Terpstra


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