news.samba.org Latest news and happenings with Samba and Samba development. http://news.samba.org/ <![CDATA[Low Point Archive Update]]> Three new columns have been added to the archive of Jeremy Allison's Low Point columns. Check out We are the champions..., Unintelligent Design, and Why we fight. Jeremy shares his thoughts on the Linux desktop, designing for users, and GPL v3 in this round of articles.

As always, Jeremy provokes thought and entertains, so check out the columns when time allows.

]]> http://news.samba.org/team/#low_point_update_2June06 Sat Jun 3 16:50:10 2006 <![CDATA[Samba Experience 06 Archive]]> Slides, pictures, and audio from Samba eXPerience 2006 are available from the sambaXP site archives. Follow the links to archive and pictures in the sidebar on the left-hand side of the page. Lots of good material here, both for those who attended and for those who couldn't make it.

]]> http://news.samba.org/announcements/#sambaxp_06_archive Wed May 31 16:10:12 2006 <![CDATA[Summer of Code '06 Projects Selected]]> Congratulations to the following who were selected to work on Samba projects as part of Google's Summer of Code '06. Google will fund the following 6 students to work on Samba over the Summer months.

  • Brad Henry
    • Implement a system for fully automated testing against Windows.
    • Brad attends the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science, and is currently majoring in Philosophy. He also participated in last year's Summer of Code.
    • Mentors: Andrew Tridgell
  • Michael Krax
    • Develop a logging system to allow system administrators better network monitoring than is possible with current debug logs.
    • Michael is working on a PhD in Political Science at Free University Berlin.
    • Mentor: Jerry Carter
  • Martin Kühl
    • Provide support for an external LDAP server in Samba4.
    • Martin is currently pursuing a Diplom of Informatics at the University of Bremen. He is also a student developer at Univention.
    • Mentor: Andrew Bartlett
  • K. Sreepathi Pai
    • Implement User Management Interface for SWAT in Samba4.
    • Sreepathi has been studying Computer Engineering for the last 4 years at Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
    • Mentor: Andrew Tridgell
  • Ming Wong
    • Create a VFS module to share files across 2 disks, in a sense, creating user-space RAID.
    • Ming is a student at RMIT University, where he studies Computer Science.
    • Mentors: Jerry Carter and Jiri Klouda
  • Mingwang Xia
    • Develop an alternative configuration, registry-like backend for Samba3.
    • Mingwang is a graduate student in Advanced Computing and Systems Lab at Zhejiang University, China
    • Mentor: Jerry Carter

We are glad to have these new developers, even if only for a few months. We're looking forward to the code they will contribute to Samba.

]]> http://news.samba.org/announcements/#soc_projects_06 Tue May 30 17:20:17 2006 <![CDATA[Samba 3.0.23rc1 Available for Download]]> This is the first release candidate of the 3.0.23 code base and is provided for testing purposes only. While close to the final stable release, this snapshot is not intended for production servers. There has been a substantial amount of development since the 3.0.21 series of stable releases. We would like to ask the Samba community for help in testing these changes as we work towards the next significant production upgrade Samba 3.0 release. Please read the specific changes in the Release Notes.

The Samba 3.0.23rc1 source code can be downloaded now. The GnuPG signature for the uncompressed tarball is also available. Precompiled packages for RedHat 9 & Fedora Core 4 are available in the Binary_Packages download area. Packages for other platforms will be available shortly.

]]> http://news.samba.org/releases/#3.0.23rc1 Thu May 25 15:30:17 2006 <![CDATA[Samba Helps Enable Exchange Alternative]]> PostPath has created a protocol-compatible drop-in alternative to Exchange.

It provides granular backup and restore, on or offsite redundancy, 5X Exchange performance, and AJAX web access.

The best part is that the company leveraged Samba and other Open Source software to do it.

]]> http://news.samba.org/announcements/#samba_helps_postpath Fri May 12 22:30:55 2006 <![CDATA[Volker Lendecke Chaosradio Podcast]]> While at LinuxTag, Volker Lendecke gave an interview to Chaosradio. Volker talks about his work on Samba, the Microsoft case in the EU, and the future of Samba development.

The podcast is in German and available as part of Chaosradio's Chaosradio Express programming.

]]> http://news.samba.org/team/#vl_chaosradio Mon May 8 15:40:12 2006 <![CDATA[Samba4 Previewed in Linux Magazine]]> Linux Magazine has published a first look at Samba4 (in PDF). This article examines features of the first Samba4 technology preview release from back in January. The work on Kerberos and LDB in Samba4 are highlighted as well as some of the new SWAT features.

Linux Magazine makes the article available for private use without charge.

]]> http://news.samba.org/users/#linux_mag_67_samba4 Fri May 5 20:50:17 2006 <![CDATA[Jeremy Allison LinuxWorld Podcast]]> The LinuxWorld Blog has posted a podcast of John Mark Walker interviewing Jeremy Allison. Topics covered include: the relationship between Samba 3 and 4, DRM and GPL v3, and why all software will one day be free thanks to the GPL.

A longer, unedited MP3 is available alongside the edited MP3 from the link above.

]]> http://news.samba.org/team/#jra_lwboston_podcast Wed May 3 17:50:11 2006 <![CDATA[Groklaw Interview with FSFE President Georg Greve]]> Groklaw has an interview with FSFE President Georg Greve. The interview was conducted in Luxembourg during the MS EU appeal trial. The interview relates to Samba creator Andrew Tridgell's testimony at the trial.

We were extremely happy to have Andrew Tridgell over to speak on behalf of the Free Software Foundation Europe and the Samba Team which you know have been working together throughout the entire case. We had Jeremy Allison over for the interim measures hearing and so this time it was, you know, the founder of the Samba project. Andrew Tridgell is, you know, uniquely skilled to talk about these issues; also, he is a very good speaker and, you know, intimately knowledgeable in the whole area, so could easily rebut anything that Microsoft's experts were bringing up in terms of fog and smoke grenades and put a lot of clarity, I believe, into the case.

Thanks to Sean Daly for the link to his interview.

]]> http://news.samba.org/advocacy/#groklaw_georg_greve_28April06 Tue May 2 18:20:12 2006 <![CDATA[Summer of Code '06 Student Applications]]> Google is doing its Summer of Code program again this year. Samba is proud to be involved again as a mentor organization, so if you're a student and have some time on your hands this summer, consider signing up. From the Summer of Code site:

The SoC is our program to introduce students to the world of Open Source software development. Last year of the 8744 applicants, 419 students were accepted into the program and more than 80% of them succeeded, which means they received the full stipend of $4500.

Today, 1 May 2006, is the day Google has planned to start accepting applications from students. For a list of potential projects in Samba development, see our Summer of Code '06 project page.

]]> http://news.samba.org/announcements/#summer_code06 Mon May 1 15:10:13 2006