Samba is an freeware open source tool that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients.Samba can be run on a platform other than Microsoft Windows, for example: IBM System 390, OpenVMS, UNIX, Linux, and other operating systems.Samba uses the TCP/IP protocol that is installed on the host server. When correctly configured, it allows that host to interact with a Microsoft Windows client or server as if it is a Windows file and print server.What\'s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]· Configuration changes: The default passdb backend has been changed to \'tdbsam\'!· General changes: Samba4 and Samba3 sources are included in the tarball· Authentication Changes: Changed the way smbd handles untrusted domain names given during user authentication.· Printing Changes: Various fixes including printer change notificiation for Samba spoolss print servers.Internal changes:· The remaining hand-marshalled DCE/RPC services (ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog and spoolss) were replaced by autogenerated code based on PIDL.· Samba3 and Samba4 do now share a common tevent library.· The code has been cleaned up and the major basic interfaces are shared with Samba4 now.· An asynchronous API has been added.