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The Samba source code is distributed via https. View the downloadarea via HTTPS. The file you probably wantis called samba-latest.tar.gz.Old releases are available in the Samba archives.
Multichannel - aggregation of network bandwidth and fault tolerance if multiple paths are available between client and server SMB Direct - adds RDMA networking support for high performance, with low latency and low CPU use Encryption - Provides end-to-end encryption and protects from eavesdropping on untrustworthy networks. UNC Hardening is an SMB security option added in 2015 to Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008 and all later OS versions. It changed the SMB security model to start using client-defined security requirements instead of legacy server-defined requirements. SMB can also communicate with any server program that is set up to receive an SMB client request. SMB is a fabric protocol that is used by Software-defined Data Center (SDDC) computing technologies, such as Storage Spaces Direct, Storage Replica. For more information, see Windows Server software-defined datacenter. Please make sure if the SMB server you want to connect to supports at least SMBv2 and do required changes on the server side (and also for the shares) before enabling SMBv1.
The Samba distribution GPG public keycan be used to verify that current releases have not been tampered with. UsingGnuPG, simply download the Samba source distribution, the tarball signature,and the Samba distribution public key. Then run
The SMB client enables an unprivileged user to mount and unmount shares on directories that the user owns. The SMB client does not include the ability to print by means of SMB or the ability to access SMB resources other than files and directories.
It is recommended that you also review the list of patches for current releases. For information on Samba security releases, please see our security page.
Smb Client Authentication
BinariesAll major Linux and Free Unix distributions have Samba as a native package. See your distributor's package or port system for a native install of samba on your system. https://samba.plus/ offers Samba packages for SLES, RHEL, and Debian and AIX. http://en.openSUSE.org/Samba offers Samba packages for all SuSE Linux products (including SLES). | Git SourcesYou can also fetch the sources using the GIT source code control system. The advantage of fetching via GIT is can update your sources at any time using a single command. See the Git instructions. | |
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