SAMBA: What's new?
With Volker Lendecke
This talk will present current fields of development of the Samba project. Current activities are based around the following fields:
- Winbind in large environments. Correct use of the Windows AD site concept is necessary to find domain controllers that are close.
- Kerberos-signed dynamic DNS updates are implemented.
- Remote management is improved a lot: Shares can now be fully defined via the registry, users can just use regedit to control all Samba parameters for shares.
- File change notify is one of the big missing pieces of Samba right now. New files don't show up in User's explorer view in time. A test suite and a prototype implementation for file change notify exists in Samba4, and work is underway to port this work to Samba 3.
As is typical of a "what's new" talk the topic list might change until the talk :-)
Volker Lendecke lives in Göttingen, Germany where he studied
Mathematics. His first patches to Samba are from 1994, he is
one of the first members of the Samba core Team. 1997
together with the colleagues from the university he founded
SerNet Service Network GmbH, a Linux and Security service
company now at 30 employees..