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Chapter 1. General Information
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Chapter 1. General Information

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Where can I get it?
What do the version numbers mean?
What platforms are supported?
How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?

Where can I get it?

+The Samba suite is available at the samba website. +

What do the version numbers mean?

+It is not recommended that you run a version of Samba with the word +"alpha" in its name unless you know what you are doing and are willing +to do some debugging. Many, many people just get the latest +recommended stable release version and are happy. If you are brave, by +all means take the plunge and help with the testing and development - +but don't install it on your departmental server. Samba is typically +very stable and safe, and this is mostly due to the policy of many +public releases. +

+How the scheme works: +

When major changes are made the version number is increased. For +example, the transition from 1.9.15 to 1.9.16. However, this version +number will not appear immediately and people should continue to use +1.9.15 for production systems (see next point.)
Just after major changes are made the software is considered +unstable, and a series of alpha releases are distributed, for example +1.9.16alpha1. These are for testing by those who know what they are +doing. The "alpha" in the filename will hopefully scare off those who +are just looking for the latest version to install.
When the release manager, currently Jerry, thinks that the alphas have stabilised to the point +where he would recommend new users install it, he renames it to the +same version number without the alpha, for example 1.9.16.
Inevitably bugs are found in the "stable" releases and minor patch +levels are released which give us the pXX series, for example 1.9.16p2.

+

+So the progression goes: + +

+1.9.15p7	(production)
+1.9.15p8	(production)
+1.9.16alpha1	(test sites only)
+:
+1.9.16alpha20	(test sites only)
+1.9.16		(production)
+1.9.16p1	(production)
+

+

+The above system means that whenever someone looks at the samba ftp +site they will be able to grab the highest numbered release without an +alpha in the name and be sure of getting the current recommended +version. +

What platforms are supported?

+Many different platforms have run Samba successfully. The platforms +most widely used and thus best tested are Linux and SunOS.

+At time of writing, there is support (or has been support for in earlier +versions): +

A/UX 3.0
AIX
Altos Series 386/1000
Amiga
Apollo Domain/OS sr10.3
BSDI
B.O.S. (Bull Operating System)
Cray, Unicos 8.0
Convex
DGUX.
DNIX.
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Intergraph.
Linux with/without shadow passwords and quota
LYNX 2.3.0
MachTen (a unix like system for Macintoshes)
Motorola 88xxx/9xx range of machines
NetBSD
NEXTSTEP Release 2.X, 3.0 and greater (including OPENSTEP for Mach).
OS/2 using EMX 0.9b
OSF1
QNX 4.22
RiscIX.
RISCOs 5.0B
SEQUENT.
SCO (including: 3.2v2, European dist., OpenServer 5)
SGI.
SMP_DC.OSx v1.1-94c079 on Pyramid S series
SONY NEWS, NEWS-OS (4.2.x and 6.1.x)
SUNOS 4
SUNOS 5.2, 5.3, and 5.4 (Solaris 2.2, 2.3, and '2.4 and later')
Sunsoft ISC SVR3V4
SVR4
System V with some berkely extensions (Motorola 88k R32V3.2).
ULTRIX.
UNIXWARE
UXP/DS

How do I subscribe to the Samba Mailing Lists?

+Look at the samba mailing list page +

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