The name Samba comes from SMB (Server Message Block), the name of the proprietary protocol used by the Microsoft Windows network file system. ==Early history== Andrew Tridgell developed the first version of Samba Unix in December 1991 and January 1992, as a PhD student at the Australian National University, using a packet sniffer to do network analysis of the protocol used by DEC Pathworks server software.
The name Samba comes from SMB (Server Message Block), the name of the proprietary protocol used by the Microsoft Windows network file system. ==Early history== Andrew Tridgell developed the first version of Samba Unix in December 1991 and January 1992, as a PhD student at the Australian National University, using a packet sniffer to do network analysis of the protocol used by DEC Pathworks server software.
At the time of the first releases, versions 0.1, 0.5 and 1.0, all from the first half of January 1992, it did not have a proper name, and Tridgell just called it "a Unix file server for Dos Pathworks".
At the time of version 1.0, he realized that he "had in fact implemented the netbios protocol" and that "this software could be used with other PC clients". With a focus on interoperability with Microsoft's LAN Manager, Tridgell released "netbios for unix", observer, version 1.5 in December 1993.
). Versions 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, and 1.9 followed relatively quickly, with the latter being released in January 1995.
Tridgell considers the adoption of CVS in May 1996 to mark the birth of the Samba Team, though there had been contributions from other people, especially Jeremy Allison, previously. Version 2.0.0 was released in January 1999, and version 2.2.0 in April 2001. ==Version history== Version 3.0.0, released on 23 September 2003, was a major upgrade.
Tridgell considers the adoption of CVS in May 1996 to mark the birth of the Samba Team, though there had been contributions from other people, especially Jeremy Allison, previously. Version 2.0.0 was released in January 1999, and version 2.2.0 in April 2001. ==Version history== Version 3.0.0, released on 23 September 2003, was a major upgrade.
The OS/2-based ArcaOS includes Samba to replace the old IBM LAN Server software. Samba includes a web administration tool called Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT). SWAT was removed starting with version 4.1. ==Samba TNG== Samba TNG (The Next Generation) was forked in late 1999, after disagreements between the Samba Team leaders and Luke Leighton about the directions of the Samba project.
Tridgell considers the adoption of CVS in May 1996 to mark the birth of the Samba Team, though there had been contributions from other people, especially Jeremy Allison, previously. Version 2.0.0 was released in January 1999, and version 2.2.0 in April 2001. ==Version history== Version 3.0.0, released on 23 September 2003, was a major upgrade.
Tridgell considers the adoption of CVS in May 1996 to mark the birth of the Samba Team, though there had been contributions from other people, especially Jeremy Allison, previously. Version 2.0.0 was released in January 1999, and version 2.2.0 in April 2001. ==Version history== Version 3.0.0, released on 23 September 2003, was a major upgrade.
Its first technical preview (4.0.0TP1) was released in January 2006 after 3 years of development. |- |||||support for SMB3 |- |||||Btrfs based file compression, snapshots and winbind integration |- |||||New Logging features, SMB 3.1.1 support |- ||||| Asynchronous flush requests |- | | |NTLM v1 disabled by default, Virtual List View, Various performance improvements |- | | |Multi-process Netlogon support |- | | |Samba AD with MIT Kerberos |- | | |Apple Time Machine Support.
Version 3.2.0 was released on 1 July 2008.
Currently, the latest release in this series is 3.0.37, released 1 October 2009, and shipped on a voluntary basis.
The 3.0.x series officially reached end-of-life on 5 August 2009. Version 3.1 was used only for development. With version 3.2, the project decided to move to time-based releases.
and its current release is 3.2.15 from 1 October 2009.
Badlock for Samba is referenced by (SAMR and LSA man in the middle attacks possible). On 24 May 2017, it was announced that a remote code execution vulnerability had been found in Samba named EternalRed or SambaCry, affecting all versions since 3.5.0.
This vulnerability was assigned identifier . On 14 September 2020, a proof-of-concept exploit for the netlogon vulnerability called Zerologon () for which a patch exists since August was published.
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