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Welcome

Samba is an Open Source / Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/CIFS clients, including the numerous versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. Samba is freely available under the GNU General Public License.

The Samba project is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

User Documentation

• Setting up Samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller
• Migrating a Samba NT4 Domain to Samba AD (Classic Upgrade)
• Setting up Samba as a Domain Member
• Joining a Samba DC to an Existing Active Directory
• Updating Samba
• Setting up a Share Using POSIX ACLs
• Setting up a Share Using Windows ACLs
• Setting up Samba as a Print Server
• CTDB and Clustered Samba
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
• more...

Developer Documentation

• Writing Torture Tests
• Using Git for Samba Development
• Samba CI on gitlab
• Wireshark with keytab to decrypt encrypted traffic
• Google Summer of Code
• more...

Contribution

• Bug reporting
• Capture packets
• Code review
• more...

Latest Releases

• Current Stable Release: 4.9.1 (Release Notes)
• Maintenance Mode: 4.8.6 (Release Notes)
• Security Fixes Only Mode: 4.7.10 (Release Notes)
• Release Planning

News

• Samba News
• Presentations

Community

• How to do Samba: Nicely