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With immediate effect, Jule Anger takes over the release management in the international team of the open source software Samba.

The previous release manager Karolin Seeger joins Red Hat on October 1st 2021. She will hand over Samba team's release management to Jule Anger, who has been working as a developer in SerNet's Samba department for 2 years. At the same time Jule Anger officially becomes a member of the international Samba core team. The release management for Samba will thus continue to be sponsored by SerNet after the departure of Karolin Seeger.

Karolin's move also brings other changes: Ralph Böhme succeeds her as team leader of the Samba department at SerNet. He moved to SerNet and the Samba team in 2013 with the foreseeable end of Netatalk, the software he mainly supported for coupling Linux and macOS via AFP. Commenting on the arrival of Jule Anger, he says: "With Jule, we have a highly motivated colleague in our team and are very pleased that she will contribute to the Samba project on an international level with a breath of fresh air."

About SerNet: SerNet is the leading provider of services and products around the free software Samba and is active worldwide. With SAMBA+, SerNet offers its own professional Samba distribution.

The SerNet organization team has set the date for sambaXP 2022. The event is scheduled for May 31st to June 2nd. It will be the 21st international Samba user and developer conference – and hopefully a chance to reunite in person again after a long time.

As for now, it is planned that the conference will again take place on site at the Hotel FreizeitIn in Göttingen, Germany. Updates on the sambaXP 2022 as well as the call for papers will be published on the conference website https://sambaxp.org.

The whole team looks forward to see everyone in Göttingen again.

Fast deployment, low maintenance requirements, easy upgrades, uncomplicated relocation - in short: effective time and cost savings. This is what characterizes the new SAMBA+ Container released by SerNet. SAMBA+ Container is now available for purchase via the SAMBA+ Shop, as a subscription for 1, 2 or even 3 years. 

SAMBA+ integrated in an Ubuntu container allows a quick and easy setup of a file server using the script "csmb". The file server can be used either as a standalone server (users are stored locally) or as a domain member server (as part of an existing domain). We provide more detailed documentation for SAMBA+ containers in our SAMBA+ How-to. 

The established SerNet subscription models with terms of 1, 2 or 3 years also facilitate both extensive testing and long-term planning. Of course, all updates available during the subscription period are included. 

Support from SerNet

SAMBA+ Container can be supplemented with support services by purchasing SAMBA+ support budgets or by signing a support contract. All inquiries regarding Samba, SAMBA+ and the SAMBA+ container, e.g. configuration, installation, planning or operation, are covered by SerNet support. Ask us – e.g. via contact@remove-this.sernet.com – we will be happy to help you. 

The future of SAMBA+ Container

The SerNet Samba team is already working on the further development of SAMBA+ containers. Printing services will soon be added to the Samba file server container, and a container for Active Directory Domain Controllers is also planned for release. Our team will be happy to keep you informed about development progress - just contact us. 

SAMBA+ packages are now available for AlmaLinux. SerNet's Team Samba currently offers SAMBA+ 4.14 and 4.13 for AlmaLinux 8. SAMBA+ 4.12 packages will follow.

A few months ago Red Hat announced that it would deliver CentOS only in the form of CentOS Stream and thus as a rolling release from the end of 2021. AlmaLinux from the provider CloudLinux OS is currently establishing itself as an alternative and is binary-compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL8) in version 8.3.

With the prompt roll-out of SAMBA+ packages for AlmaLinux, SerNet is responding to initial customer inquiries on this topic. The team always strives to be aware of customer wishes and requirements and to ensure fruitful cooperation. If you would like to contact us directly ­­– about AlmaLinux or other topics ­– please write to contact@remove-this.sernet.com.

For sambaXP 2021 Björn Jacke, longtime member of the international Samba Team and SerNet's AIX expert, has hosted a tutorial. We provide the recording of "Integrate SAMBA+ AIX in an existing AD domain" in our YouTube channel.

SAMBA+ AIX are SerNet’s Samba packages for IBM's AIX Unix operating system. The packages have minimal dependencies on third-party libraries or other external package sources – but come with a lot of advantages and support a lot of features. Please have a look at the basics on our SAMBA+ AIX information page. Also, our team will be happy to help with any questions or to get more in-depth technical details on SAMBA+ AIX. Get in contact with them via mail to contact@remove-this.sernet.com.