Samba in the Enterprise : Samba 3.0
and beyond
jra@samba.org
jeremy.allison@hp.com
By Jeremy Allison
Where we are now : Samba 2.2
□The current Samba is a credible replacement for a
Windows server providing file and print services.
□More robust than Windows, scales to larger
machines than Windows.
□Provides better performance than Windows on
identical hardware (when used with Linux).
See : PC Magazine report (details on next slides).
Samba certainly can't be beaten on cost.
Performance Figures (thoughput)
From PC Magazine.
Performance Figures (response time).
Moving beyond the workgroup
□As Linux expands into the Enterprise, Samba
must change in order to grow with it.
□Directory services, single sign on, account
controls become much more important.
□Integration with Enterprise security systems such
as Kerberos are needed.
□Better management and configuration tools are
needed to handle large number of servers.
Samba 3.0 Roadmap
□Currently in alpha, rapidly moving towards
production release.
The aim is to ship in spring 2003.
This is software, don't take the above seriously
.
□Uses UNICODE in talking to clients.
Allows true multi-lingual file name storage (when file
names are in UTF8 – the default in RedHat 8).
□Full Kerberos 5 and NTLMv2 support.
Single sign-on when using a Windows 2000 Domain.
Samba 3.0 Roadmap (continued).
□Full support for LDAP directory infrastructure
using standard LDAP v3 calls.
Provided by any LDAP directory server with correct
schema.
□Windows 2000 ADS
□OpenLDAP
□Other proprietary LDAP servers (Novell, IPlanet etc.).
□Dynamic password backend selection.
Plug-ins with fallback support.
Samba 3.0 File and Print
Enhancements.
□Better mapping from Windows access control
lists (ACLs) to POSIX ACLs.
POSIX ACLs are starting to ship as standard in many
Linux distributions.
□
'Stacking' VFS (virtual file system) layer allows
dynamic checking of file access.
Virus scanning, auditing, security.
□Scalable printing – Major goal for HP.
The aim is to support more than 1000 pr