February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
23h 11m
English
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What’s New in Samba 2.2?
In Version 2.2, Samba has more advanced support for Windows networking, including the ability to perform the more important tasks necessary for acting in a Windows NT domain. In addition, Samba 2.2 has some support for technologies that Microsoft introduced in Windows 2000, although the Samba team has saved Active Directory support for Version 3.0.
PDC Support for Windows 2000/XP Clients
Samba previously could act as a PDC to authenticate Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT 4 systems. This functionality has been extended in Release 2.2 to include Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Thus, it is possible to have a Samba server supporting domain logons for a network of Windows clients, including the most recent releases from Microsoft. This can result in a very stable, high-performance, and more secure network, and gives you the added benefit of not having to purchase per-seat Windows CALs from Microsoft.
Microsoft Dfs Support
Microsoft Dfs allows shared resources that are dispersed among a number of servers in the network to be gathered together and appear to users as if they all exist in a single directory tree on one server. This method of organization makes life much simpler for users. Instead of having to browse around the network on a treasure hunt to locate the resource they want to use, they can go directly to the Dfs server and grab what they want. Samba 2.2 offers support for serving Dfs, so a Windows server is no longer needed for this purpose.
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