Samba


About Samba

Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix.

Samba is Free Software licensed under the GNU General Public License, the Samba project is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

Since 1992, Samba has provided secure, stable and fast file and print services for all clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol, such as all versions of DOS and Windows, OS/2, Linux and many others.

Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix Servers and Desktops into Active Directory environments. It can function both as a domain controller or as a regular domain member.

Releases

Current stable release

Samba 4.8.0 (gzipped)
Release Notes · Signature

Release History

Versions & Notes

Maintenance

Patches · Security Updates · GPG Key

Future

Release Planning · Roadmap

Beyond Samba

Commercial Support

Global · By Country

Conferences

sambaXP by SerNet
SDC by SNIA

Donations


Nowadays, the Samba Team needs a dollar instead of pizza ;-)

Latest News

17 April 2018

Samba 4.7.7 Available for Download

This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.7 release series.

The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID 6F33915B6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 4.7.6 is also available. See the release notes for more info.

13 April 2018

Samba 4.6.15 Available for Download

This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.6 release series.

The uncompressed tarball has been signed using GnuPG (ID 6F33915B6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded now. A patch against Samba 4.6.14 is also available. See the release notes for more info.

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