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* Active Directory support. Samba is able to join a ADS realm as
a member server and authenticate using LDAP/Kerberos.
* Unicode support.
* New, more flexible authentication (passdb) system.
* A new "net" command that is similar to the "net" command in Windows.
* Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire, which
greatly improves error handling.
* Better Windows 2K/2K3/XP printing support.
* Loadable module support for passdb backends and character sets.
* More performant winbindd.
* Support for migrating from a Windows NT4 domain to a Samba domain
and maintaining user, group, and domain SIDs.
* Support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT4 DCs.
* Initial support for a distributed Winbind architecture using an
LDAP directory for storing SID-to-uid/gid mappings.
* Major updates to the Samba documentation tree.
* Full support for client and server SMB signing to ensure
compatibility with default Windows 2K3 security settings.
* Improvement of ACL mapping features.
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Samba is a suite of applications that speak the Server Message Block (SMB)
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protocol. Samba allows a UNIX machine to perform client-server networking
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for file and printer sharing with Microsoft Windows systems using their
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native network protocol and to appear as another Windows system on the
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network from the perspective of a Windows client. The Samba suite also
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includes client tools that allow users to access folders and printers that
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Windows systems and Samba servers offer on the network.
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