Developer Documentation

How can I contribute

• Contribution HowTo

• Using Git for Samba Development

• Doing code review

• Active projects

Release planning

• Samba release planning (including the Policy and steps required for checkins to branches)

• Samba Features added/changed (by release)

• Samba Next Goals

Source code

Samba development is stored in the Git SCM system. See Using Git for Samba Development for more detail on how Samba uses Git.

Two web interfaces are:

• Samba's own GitWeb (latest changes in the master branch)
• Official Samba GitHub Mirror

Debugging / Testing

• The Samba Selftest System

• Writing Torture Tests

• Writing Python Tests

• Writing cmocka Tests

• Writing Shell Tests

• Writing Perl Tests

• Testing against Windows using WinTest

• Testing development trees

• Debugging individual tests

• Keytab extraction

• Wireshark with keytab to decrypt encrypted traffic

• How to test the Linux kernel client against Samba

• Saving packets that failed to parse to test IDL fixes using ndrdump

Bug reporting

• Bug reporting HowTo

• Packet capturing

Presentations

• Presentations about Samba, including slides and papers

VFS

• Writing a Samba VFS
• The new version of Writing a Samba VFS (for Samba 3.6 and earlier)
• Writing a Samba VFS Module (for Samba 4.0 and above)

Clustered Samba

• CTDB and Clustered Samba

• New clustering features in SMB3 and Samba

Building Samba

• Building Samba 4 (Which build system to use and why)

• Using waf to Build Samba

Building packages

• Building Debian Packages of Samba 4

Google Summer of Code

• Google Summer of Code

• Samba SoC page

• SoC Samba project ideas

Historical Documentation on the Development of Samba4

• Samba4 DRS ToDo List

• Samba 4 Status

• Franky: A Hybrid Samba Active Directory Controller (outdated!)

• An Explanation of the s3fs Architecture for Using smbd in the AD Server

• Development Resources

• Test Status

• Gtk+ Frontends

• Active Directory Plans

• LDAP Directory Server Backend History Notes

• Samba 4 AD Plugfest 2010 TODO List

• Development Releases of Samba4 (technology previews, alphas, betas, release candidates)

Academic Writings etc.

• GENSEC white paper (2005)

• Thesis on Samba (2005)

• Thesis on Samba replication (2007)

• Integration of Samba 3 & Samba 4 (2005)

• Thesis on Talloc (2012)