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On May 9, 2023, a workshop by Stefan Kania with the title "How to set up a Samba Domain?" will be held as part of sambaXP. The location of the event is the Hotel FREIZEIT IN in Göttingen, Germany. The workshop is primarily aimed at newcomers and beginners and is intended, among other things, to help in deciding whether a Samba Active Directory is the right choice, and how to deploy it successfully. Tickets as well as the detailed contents of the workshop are available at https://sambaXP.org.

Especially for help with AD selection there is the possibility to ask individual questions. In a practical part a Samba domain with two domain controllers and a file server will be set up. The following contents will be discussed for example:

• Quick and easy setup of a Samba domain
• Different client operating systems
• Windows compliant permissions.

A VM suitable for this purpose will be provided to the participants, an own PC is necessary. More detailed information about the requirements for the device can be found at https://sambaxp.org. The workshop will be held in English.

Stefan Kania is an author and trainer in the field of Samba, LDAP and Kerberos. He has already published several technical books in which he has contributed his expertise and many years of experience.

The agenda for this year's sambaXP is online! From May 10 - 11, 2023, a variety of interesting presentations await you at Hotel FREIZEIT IN in Göttingen. Among others, we are looking forward to the keynote by Tom Talpey and the panel discussion with sambaXP chairman Jeremy Allison.

A big thank you goes out to our sponsors Google and Microsoft. Microsoft is helping shape the agenda with an IO track featuring talks such as "Integrate the Power of Office365 through Co-Auth and File Synchronization Protocols" by Jinlin Xu.

Ticket sales and the detailed program can be found at https://sambaxp.org.

Other topics in the program:

• SINK: Does it still float? - An update on samba-operator, samba-container & friends (Michael Adam, IBM / Samba Team & John Mulligan, IBM)
• Linux Group Policy: Latest Developments, Use Cases, Integration, and Best Practices (David Muller, SUSE / Samba Team)
• Active Directory Claims and conditional ACEs: how do they work and what are they for? (Douglas Bagnall, Catalyst IT / Samba Team)
• SMB3 POSIX Extensions: Reparse Points current status (Volker Lendecke, SerNet / Samba Team)
• From an OpenLDAP back-end for Samba to a Samba back-end for OpenLDAP (Nadezhda Ivanova, Samba Team)
• Samba AD / MIT Kerberos: path out of experimental (Alexander Bokovoy & Andreas Schneider, Red Hat / Samba Team)
• SoS: Samba on (a large) Scale: exploring ctdb Alternatives (Ralph Böhme, SerNet / Samba Team)

Social Event
A social event is planned for the evening of the first day of the conference, also at the Hotel FREIZEIT IN. Participation is free of charge for sambaXP visitors. With good food and tasty drinks, the gathering is a wonderful opportunity for personal exchange and networking.

Workshop on May 9, 2023
On the day before the conference, Stefan Kania will explain the basics for successfully setting up a Samba domain in his workshop "How to set up a Samba Domain". Tickets are also available at https://sambaxp.org.

SAMBA+ 4.18.0 has just been released by SerNet's Samba team. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu and AIX are available now.

This is the first stable SAMBA+ release of the new Samba 4.18 release series. Please make sure to test thoroughly before upgrading and read the release notes carefully! The release notes, which contain information about changes and new features of the new major release, are available here: 

https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.18.0.html 

This release additionally includes patches to 

• solve an issue with restoring from snapshots (previous versions), 
• fix the directory name case normalization, when the combination of the following smb.conf options is set: 
  case sensitive = yes 
  preserve case = no 
  short preserve case = no 

With the new 4.18 release, Samba 4.17 has been turned into the "maintenance mode" and Samba 4.16 into the "security fixes only mode".  Samba 4.15 will probably not receive any updates beyond this point. The SAMBA+ 4.15 repositories will be disabled soon. Please update to a recent version of SAMBA+. 

Details on upgrading can be found in the SAMBA+ HowTo collection.

The following Linux versions will no longer be provided with up-to-date SAMBA+: 

• RHEL 6 
• CentOS 6 
• Oracle Linux 6 
• SLES 11 
• SLES 12 
• openSUSE 11.1 
• openSUSE 13.2 
• openSUSE Leap 42 

If you need SAMBA+ for any of the now unsupported operating systems, please contact us directly by mail or phone. 

The Samba team at SerNet has just released SAMBA+ 4.17.6 software packages. They are available for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu and AIX. 

These packages address several issues, which are listed in the release notes: 

  https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.17.6.html 

Due to some interim updates for 4.17.5 this release also contains next to other improvements patches to 

• solve an issue with restoring from snapshots (previous versions), 
• fix the directory name case normalization, when the combination of the following smb.conf options is set: 
  case sensitive = yes 
  preserve case = no 
  short preserve case = no 

SAMBA+ 4.17.5 software packages have just been released by SerNet. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu and AIX are available now.

These packages address several issues, which are listed in the release notes:

• https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.17.5.html