SerNet is expanding the range of defined budgets that can be purchased directly via the SAMBA+ Shop: The Support Budget XL with a scope of 50 service hours now complements the SAMBA+ portfolio. The contingents can be used directly after purchase – customers can thus benefit quickly and easily from SerNet's accumulated Samba know-how.
The Support Budget XL with 50 hours of services already includes a discount of 5% on SerNet's normal hourly rates. Up to four of these contingents can be purchased at once, which corresponds to 200 hours or 5 work weeks. This is ideal for more extensive projects!
The smallest time unit for a request is a quarter of an hour. Monthly account statements as well as a final statement guarantee a transparent overview. Further details on budgets are available on the SAMBA+ website or in the SAMBA+ Shop.
Volker Lendecke, SerNet co-founder and long-time Samba Team member, was once again a speaker at SDC EMEA. At this year’s conference (February 4, 2020 – Tel Aviv, Israel) he specifically addressed integrators who want to use Samba. The recording is available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/RHHsTfKmI_c (direct link).
Lendecke deals with these points in his lecture "Samba for integrators":
Samba architecture:
What components does Samba consist of?
What protocols does Samba implement?
What process model does Samba utilize?
Samba SMB server:
What file system features does Samba expect?
Common complications and performance issues
Samba features for NFS interoperability
Samba authentication:
Overview of authentication mechanisms in the Active Directory world
The role of Samba's winbind daemon: Authentication and idmapping
Winbind API and services for non-Samba SMB servers
Samba Remote Procedure Call services:
Requirements for seamless Windows interop beyond SMB
Protocol description for RPC services (direct TCP, named pipes)
SAMBA+ software packages from the 4.12 release series are now available for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa).
SAMBA+ packages and all later versions are available as software subscription. They can be purchased at the SAMBA+ shop, detailed information and prices are listed at https://shop.samba.plus. The subscriptions are managed at our platform OPOSSO (https://oposso.samba.plus). Users can activate their subscriptions here and manage access credentials. New SAMBA+ packages are included in existing subscriptions.
SAMBA+ 4.12.2, 4.11.8 and 4.10.15 packages have just been released by SerNet. These are important security releases, please update affected systems as soon as possible. The packages are available for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu.
The packages address the following issues:
CVE-2020-10700: Use-after-free in Samba AD DC LDAP Server with ASQ
A client combining the 'ASQ' and 'Paged Results' LDAP controls can cause a use-after-free in Samba's AD DC LDAP server.
CVE-2020-10704: LDAP Denial of Service (stack overflow) in Samba AD DC
A deeply nested filter in an un-authenticated LDAP search can exhaust the LDAP server's stack memory causing a SIGSEGV.
SAMBA+ packages and all later versions are available as software subscription. They can be purchased at the SAMBA+ shop, detailed information and prices are listed at https://shop.samba.plus. The subscriptions are managed at our platform OPOSSO (https://oposso.samba.plus). Users can activate their subscriptions here and manage access credentials. The new SAMBA+ packages are included in existing subscriptions.
SAMBA+ 4.12.1 has just been released. Packages for various SUSE and Red Hat platforms as well as for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu are available now.
This is the latest stable release of the Samba 4.12 release series. Please see the release notes for more details.
With the release of Samba 4.12 the Samba 4.9 release series has upstream been marked as discontinued.
SAMBA+ packages and all later versions are available as software subscription. They can be purchased at the SAMBA+ shop, detailed information and prices are listed at https://shop.samba.plus. The subscriptions are managed at our platform OPOSSO (https://oposso.samba.plus). Users can activate their subscriptions here and manage access credentials. The new SAMBA+ packages are included in existing subscriptions.
