[MAD-SAGE] Re: mad-sage digest, Vol 1 #41 - 1 msg

[robin stubbs mstubbs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I don't know much about active directory. But I did note that the 
new release of samba had a lot of new features. Would any of them help?
BTW there is already a security fix on this version: 

                         - SECURITY FIX
                         Samba 2.0.8 has been released. This
                         release fixes a locally exploitable
                         security hole in Samba 2.0.7 that allows
                         a user with a shell account to corrupt
                         local devices (such as raw disks).
                         Samba 2.2.0 includes all the security
                         fixes as well, so only install 2.0.8 if you
                         do not wish to upgrade to 2.2.x just yet.
                         The 2.0.8 release is available here and
                         the patch is available here. 

********************* samba press release ********************************
http://us1.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/
Samba 2.2.0 - Powering the next generation
             of Network Attached Storage.

17 April 2001.

The Samba Team is proud to announce a new major release of Samba, version
2.2.0. This release includes significant feature enhancements for Samba, and
sets
the standard for UNIX® and Microsoft Windows® integration.

Enhancements include :

o Integration of server terminated leases (Windows "oplocks") with UNIX NFS
sharing (Linux 2.4 kernel and IRIX only). Complete data and locking integrity
when sharing files between UNIX and Windows.

o Ability to act as an authentication source for Windows 2000® and Windows
NT® clients, allowing savings on the purchase of Microsoft® Client Access
Licenses.

o Full support for the automatic downloading of Windows 2000 and Windows
NT printer drivers, providing the first full implementation of the Windows NT
point-and-print functionality independent of Microsoft code.

o Unification of Windows 2000 and Windows NT Access control lists (ACLs)
with UNIX Access control lists. Allow Windows clients to directly manipulate
UNIX Access control entries as though they were Windows ACLs.

o Single sign-on integration using the winbind server (available separately).
Allow UNIX servers to use Windows 2000 and Windows NT Domain controllers
as a user and group account server. Manage all user and group accounts from a
single source.

o Microsoft Distributed File System® (DFS) support. Samba 2.2.0 can act as a
DFS server in a Microsoft network.

o Share level security setting. Allow security on Samba shares to be set by
Microsoft client tools.

o Many other feature enhancements and bug fixes.

About Samba

Samba is an Open Source/Free Software implementation of the Microsoft
CIFS/SMB protocols for UNIX systems. In development for ten years, Samba is
considered to be the reference implementation of the CIFS/SMB protocol for
UNIX systems. Samba test tools are used by all the CIFS/SMB vendors to test
and fix their protocol implementations.

Samba is currently used in Network attached storage (NAS) and other products
from the following vendors (Note: this does not imply endorsement by these
vendors, please contact the vendor marketing departments separately for
comments).

IBM®, SGI® (Samba for IRIX), Sun Microsystems ®(Cobalt Qube), Hewlett
Packard® (CIFS/9000), VERITAS®, VA Linux Systems®, REALM Information
Technologies ®, Network Concierge®, Procom ® and many others.

In addition, Samba is shipped as a standard part of Linux® offerings from Linux
vendors such as Red Hat®, Caldera®, SuSE®, Mandrake®, TurboLinux ® and
others.

Samba is being used worldwide to solve the problem of integrating hetrogeneous
networks by corporations such as Agilent Technologies ®, CISCO Systems ®,
and many others in addition to educational establishments and individuals

Best of all Samba is an Open Source/Free software project, available under the
GNU GPL license meaning that source code for Samba is freely available for
anyone to modify and customize.

Code from the Samba Team and individuals around the world has been
integrated and tested to create Samba. In addition the following corporations
have made significant donations of code, effort, testing facilities and support
to
make this release possible :

Linuxcare (now TurboLinux), VA Linux Systems, Caldera, SGI, Hewlett
Packard, VERITAS, IBM.

This new release may be downloaded from our Web site at :

http://www.samba.org