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The third (and possibly final) beta release of Samba 3.0.0 is available for download. While significantly closer to the final release, it should still be considered a non-production release provided for testing purposes only. The source code and GnuPG signatures can be found on Samba mirrors. RedHat RPMS for 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 are also available in the Binary_Packages download area. Packages for other platforms will follow shortly. The full release notes are available on-line as well.

1) Active Directory support. Samba 3.0 is now able to to join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/Kerberos.

2) Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte and UNICODE character sets.

3) New authentication system. The internal authentication system has been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal, but the new auth system is also very configurable.

4) New filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps persistently. This needs lots of testing.

5) A new "net" command has been added. It is somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan to replace umerous other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with subcommands in "net".

6) Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This improves error handling a lot.

7) Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing printer attributes in active directory.

8) New loadable RPC modules.

9) New dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance.

10) Support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba domain and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs.