This talk is going to give an overview of recent changes in the Samba fileserver and an outlook on the development roadmap. Recent development has been mainly focusing on security resulting in the release of Samba 4.15 last year. Looking forward there are many things the Samba fileserver development team has on its todo list and this presentation will give a first hand insight into the making of the next Samba versions.
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DCE/RPC is a popular library for sending RPC calls to Active Directory from Linux/Unix systems.
SMB3 has seen significant adoption as the storage protocol of choice for running private cloud deployments.
Technically, everything would be new since Apple has never given a talk about what is in our SMB Client. We will cover: 1.
Linux's ability to access files remotely via SMB3.1.1 continues to improve.
Born in the '80s, the SMB family of protocols has been evolving for many years, with the latest version, SMB3.1.1, continuing to add features in order to support the largest breadth of clients (and
One fallout of Samba's protection against symlink races was a slowdown of pathname handling.
On the domain controller side we got a lot of updates recently: - Updated Heimdal - Working with the latest MIT Kerberos On the member server side we fixed some critical bugs and have plans for fut
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