Samba for Debian ---------------- This package was built by Eloy Paris and Steve Langasek , current maintainers of the Samba packages for Debian, based on work from Bruce Perens , Andrew Howell , Klee Dienes and Michael Meskes , all previous maintainers of the packages samba and sambades (now merged together - see below). As of Samba 2.0.6-1, the Debian version of Samba is compiled with Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) support. PAM support was discontinued during the libc5 -> libc6 migration process and I never brought it back until 2.0.6-1. The smbfs package does not support the 2.0.x Linux kernels anymore. This has been the case since the very first packages of the CVS sources that eventually became Samba 2.2. To use the smbfs package you need to run a 2.2.x kernel or later. Starting with the Debian packages for Samba 2.2, the Samba log files (for nmbd and smbd) have been moved to a new location: /var/log/samba/. The files also have new names: log.nmbd and log.smbd. The old files (/var/log/{nmb,smb} were moved to the new location. As of Samba 2.2.2-11, the Samba sources produce the following binary packages: samba: A LanManager like file and printer server for Unix. samba-common: Samba common files used by both the server and the client. smbclient: A LanManager like simple client for Unix. swat: Samba Web Administration Tool samba-doc: Samba documentation. smbfs: Mount and umount commands for the smbfs (works with 2.2.x and above kernels, not with 2.0.x kernels.) libpam-smbpass: pluggable authentication module for SMB password database. libsmbclient: Shared library that allows applications to talk to SMB servers. libsmbclient-dev: libsmbclient shared libraries. Please note that the package smbwrapper (a shared library that provides SMB client services that existed between Samba 2.0.0-1 and Samba-2.0.5a-4 does not exist any more. The reason is that starting with Samba 2.0.6-1, that code does not even compile, and the upstream author (Andrew Tridgell) recommended to disable the compilation of smbwrapper until some issues with glibc2.1 get cleared out (the problem is with glibc, not with Samba itself). Support for NT Domains ---------------------- Samba 2.2 includes preliminary support for NT domains. A Samba server can now be part of a Windows NT domain whose Primary Domain Controller is a Windows NT server. This feature is supposed to be stable although I haven't tried it myself. Read the documentation in the samba-doc package for help on how to do this (hint: "security = domain" in the smb.conf file). Samba 2.2 has also experimental support for Primary Domain Controller. This means that a Samba server can act now as a PDC. There are no special flags needed to compile Samba with NT domain PDC support. Please read the NTDOM PDC FAQ at www.samba.org (Documentation section). Please note that NT domain PDC support is far from complete and is still experimental. Eloy A. Paris Steve Langasek January 14, 2002