Samba，是种自由软件，用来让UNIX系列的操作系统与微软Windows操作系统的SMB/CIFS（Server Message Block/Common Internet File System）网络协定做连结。不仅可存取及分享SMB的资料夹及打印机，本身还可以整合入Windows Server的网域、扮演为网域控制站（Domain Controller）以及加入Active Directory成员。简而言之，此软件在Windows与UNIX系列OS之间搭起一座桥梁，让两者的资源可互通有无。详细如下：

Samba 3.6.0 pre1 是 3.6.0 系列的测试版本。想要尝鲜的兄弟可下载。

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                   Release Notes for Samba 3.6.0pre1
			     July 28, 2010
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This is the first preview release of Samba 3.6.  This is *not*
intended for production environments and is designed for testing
purposes only.  Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.6.0 include:

SMB2 support
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SMB2 support in 3.6.0 is fully functional (with one ommission),
and can be enabled by setting:

max protocol = SMB2

in the [global] section of your smb.conf and re-starting
Samba. All features should work over SMB2 except the modification
of user quotas using the Windows quota management tools.

As this is the first release containing what we consider
to be a fully featured SMB2 protocol, we are not enabling
this by default, but encourage users to enable SMB2 and
test it. Once we have enough confirmation from Samba
users and OEMs that SMB2 support is stable in wide user
testing we will enable SMB2 by default in a future Samba
release.

【OSMSG 发布】文章地址：http://www.osmsg.com/2010/07/samba-3-6-0-pre1-%E5%8F%91%E5%B8%83/