Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Documentation
Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make them available to Free Software projects such as Samba.
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20.12.2007 SMB2 Protocol - what is a Symbolic Link?
I had a comment from my last post about the new SMB2 protocol that I wanted to follow up on...There was mention of support for 'Symbolic Links' in the post and Mr. Kevin Owen asked for some clarification.
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On to the next version of Windows
Guess Microsoft really wants to make sure the next version of Windows doesn't take another five years.
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12.4.2006 Update for WLM version
Windows Live Messenger v8.0.0562 was released exclusively to selected Beta-testers earlier this month. Fortunately for WLM users (including invitees) a new build very similar to 0562 is now imminent.
It could've been released already, if it wasn't for weather-inflicted damage to many offices in Redmond last weekend. So, if you're currently using Windows Live Messenger 8.0.0365, expect an auto-update prompt in one of the next couple of days.
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25.2.2006 Next version of Windows to be 'fundamentally different'
Future versions of Windows will have to be "fundamentally different" in order to take advantage of multicore processors, according to Ty Carlson of Microsoft.
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15.5.2007 Windows Services for UNIX Version 3.5
Windows Services for UNIX 3.5 provides a full range of supported and fully integrated cross-platform network services for enterprise customers to use in integrating Windows into their existing UNIX-based environments.
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22.9.2006 Windows Live version three, right around the corner
Microsoft made a statement that Windows Live 3 services would begin rolling out by years end and that time is quickly approaching.
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19.11.2008 Windows 7 Guide Updated to Version 1.2
Microsoft has developed one of the key resources it has been providing so far for Windows 7.
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10.12.2008 Want the Enterprise Version of Microsoft Windows Vista?
If so, you'll have to sign up for the Microsoft Software Assurance licensing program.
Businesses that want the Enterprise Edition of Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista operating system will have to sign up for its Software Assurance licensing program, the company announced today.
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Supercomputer version of Windows nears release
Microsoft on Monday released a near-final version of its Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003--a version of its operating system tailored to allow powerful clusters of Windows-based machines to perform high-performance computing tasks.
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9.5.2006 Firefox Version 2.0 Beta Candidate Released
The browser wars are heating up, as the first beta of Firefox 2.0 is due on Tuesday July 11th, and Internet Explorer version 7.0 is now on it's third beta release.
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10.7.2006 Download Flight Simulator X Trial Version
The Flight Simulator X trial version includes two airports, three missions, and three different aircraft.
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30.9.2006 New version of Windows Mobile sighted, the Crossbow
Microsoft is preparing 2 major upgrades to Windows Mobile, one has code name Windows Mobile Crossbow (based still on Windows CE 5) and the other one has code name Windows Mobile Photon (based on new Windows CE 6).
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9.10.2006 MSN Premium releases 9.5 version, not dead yet
Much to our surprise, MSN released version 9.5 of MSN Explorer/MSN Internet Access to subscribers as an update on Friday. The release appears to fix a number of issues surrounding upgrades to Windows Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Live Messenger.
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21.11.2006 Vista: Should I Install 64bit or 32bit Version?
Deciding which Vista version to install can be a difficult decision and can really limit what you can do with your system. Here are practical hints which should help a user decide which version to install. I decided to write this guide after installing 64-bit and 32-bit vista systems on several test boxes.
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12.1.2007 Magic Utilities 2007 version 5.10
Magic Utilities is a cute program designed to make your computer clean and more stable.
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15.5.2007 New Test Version of Windows Vista SP1 Available
But you won't get a download! Microsoft made a new test version of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available. The Redmond company is in full throttle with the development of the first service pack for Vista as the refresh will be delivered for download to MSDN and TechNet subscribers by mid September.
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4.9.2007 The Latest Version of Windows for Supercomputers Goes Against Linux
Microsoft has completed the Windows Server 2008 puzzle with the release to manufacturing of the latest iteration of Windows for supercomputers.
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22.9.2008 Microsoft: Server version of Windows 7 this year
Windows Server boss Bill Laing said in an interview Friday that the server version of Windows 7 will ship this calendar year.
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6.4.2009 Windows 7 Kernel version remains unchanged - still 7.0
A lot of confusion was generated today as several news sites reported about a spotting of an MSDN page indicating that the Windows 7 kernel version was 7.0 and not 6.1. An interview conducted by Neowin in October 2008 with Mike Nash also caused some misinterpretation.
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22.4.2009 No Internet Explorer in Windows 7 version for Europe
Microsoft is planning on shipping a version of Windows 7 to Europe that will not include Internet Explorer.
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11.6.2009 Microsoft scraps Windows 7 E version for Europe
Microsoft confirmed late on Friday that it plans to kill off the Windows 7 'E' version for Europe.
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1.8.2009 Next Version of Office for Mac Drops in 2010
Microsoft is not only hard at work cooking the next iteration of the Office System for Windows users, but also the next version of Office for Mac.
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13.8.2009 Install Any Version of Windows 7 with Universal ISO
Those of you who own an official copy of Windows 7 from MSDN or TechNet may have faced a scenario where you wanted to install a different edition of Windows, only to find out that you will have to download a separate ISO file just to install your desired edition.
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9.11.2009 Age of Empires III FULL VERSION DOWNLOAD
Http download of all 3 CD?s Age of Empires III.
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Half Life 2 DOWNLOAD FULL version + Screenshots
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Microsoft To Ship All OS Bits With Every Version Of Vista
Microsoft plans to market several versions of Vista but will distribute all of the OS bits with every product shipped so users can easily unlock and step up to more full-featured versions using electronic keys, sources said.
"No matter which edition you buy you get all the bits and a key to unlock it. Everyone will have all the bits," said one source familiar with Microsoft's plans. "Right now we maintain master images for each version of Windows XP and it's a lot of work. Now there's just one master image."
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9.1.2006 Microsoft Introduces New Version of Windows Live Local
New capabilities include real-time traffic reporting, new ways to collect and share search results, tight integration with Microsoft Office Outlook and Windows Live Messenger, and geographic expansion to Canada and the U.K.
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25.5.2006 Kernel Memory Space Analyzer Version 8.1 and guide
Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows. The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files.
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31.8.2006 Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs Trial Version
Play as the versatile Iroquois in the Age of Empires III trial version.
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14.12.2006Samba Team Receives Microsoft Protocol Documentation
Today the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), a non-profit organization created by the Software Freedom Law Center, signed an agreement
with Microsoft to receive the protocol documentation needed to fully interoperate with the Microsoft Windows workgroup server products and to make
them available to Free Software projects such as Samba. Microsoft was required to make this information available to competitors as part of the
European Commission March 24th 2004 Decision in the antitrust lawsuit, after losing their appeal against that decision on September 17th 2007.
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21.12.2007Samba will move to GPLv3
The new version 3 of the
General Public License got a
major endorsement Monday from
the project leaders of Samba,
widely used open-source
software for networked file
sharing and printing.
"After internal
consideration in the Samba
Team, we have decided to adopt
the GPLv3 and LGPLv3 licenses
for all future releases of
Samba," said Jeremy Allison,
a Samba project leader. "We
feel this is an important
change to help promote the
interests of Samba and other
free software."
The
Free Software Foundation
released GPLv3 in June,
bringing significant changes
regarding patents,
compatibility with some other
licenses and the use of GPL
software in consumer devices
such as personal video
recorders. With GPLv3
complete, attention now
focuses on how widely adopted
it will be. ..
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10.07.2007Microsoft co-operation working well: Samba author
Co-operation between Microsoft and the developers of the open source Samba protocol is going much better since a landmark settlement late last year,
according to the software's original developer.
In
December, Microsoft agreed to make documentation relating to its workgroup server products available to the Samba team under a non-disclosure
agreement.
The non-disclosure agreement was brokered on behalf of Samba by the Protocol Freedom Information Foundation (PFIF), an
organisation that seeks to facilitate the exchange of free and open source software information. PFIF, which paid a one-off fee of 10,000 euros for
the documentation, is part of the Software Freedom Law Center.
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31.01.2008Canonical discloses Samba Vulnerability in Linux
Canonical has disclosed a security vulnerability that affects various versions, including the latest version 7.10, of its Linux distribution, as well
as corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The flaw occurs because Samba, an application which provides seamless file and print
services to SMB/CIFS clients, does not correctly check the size of reply packets to mailslot requests. It is therefore possible for a remote attacker
to execute malicious code by sending a specially crafted domain logon packet, assuming that domain logon is enabled on the server. Thankfully, it is
disabled by default in Ubuntu and upgrading libsmbclient as well as samba to the latest versions for the OS fixes the issue.
Update:
Several members have noted in the comments that this is, in fact, not a vulnerability limited to Ubuntu, but is a problem with samba itself. We
recommend keeping up to date, no matter what distribution you are using.
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19.12.2007Microsoft Working For Samba Interoperability
Andrew Bartlett of Samba fame has written a document describing
their recent collaboration with Microsoft's Active
Directory team. In brief, it would seem that the sky is falling, as Microsoft's engineers seem to be really committed to making Samba fully
interoperable with AD. They have organized interoperability fests and have knowledgeable engineers answering technical questions without legal or
marketing drones getting in the way. However according to Andrew the Samba AD team is currently very short on manpower, so if you have network
experience, now is the time to get coding.
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25.10.2008Samba Team Blasts Novell-MS Deal
The development team behind
Samba, open source software
that connects different
operating systems and provides
file and printer sharing
functionality, has published
an open letter calling the
patent agreement between
Novell and Microsoft
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14.11.2006Patched Macs Vulnerable to Samba Bug
Mac OS X is running with an
outdated and vulnerable
version of the open-source
file and print program Samba,
according to Symantec's
DeepSight Threat Analyst Team.
The vulnerabilities, first
published on May 14, involve
multiple heap-based buffer
overflow weaknesses in
Samba's NDR remote procedure
call request. The
vulnerability affects Samba 3
versions prior to 3.0.25. The
DeepSight Threat Analyst Team
recently discovered that Mac
OS X includes Samba 3.0.10.
Samba hasn't been updated on
the Mac platform since that
version, according to a May 26
team journal entry. On the
same day, the team managed to
exploit the heap-corruption
vulnerability on a fully
patched Mac OS X 10.4.9 system
that was running the default
Samba 3.0.10 program.
Samba doesn't run on Mac OS
X systems by default; use
requires that the operating
system be configured to have
the "Windows Sharing"
service enabled, accessible
under the Sharing option under
Systems Preferences. The
DeepSight Threat Analyst Team
said mixed-platform networks
may be more likely to have
that option enabled. The team
is advising Mac OS X users to
upgrade to the latest Samba
version, 3.0.25, from Samba's
official site. Otherwise,
users can disable the Windows
Sharing service until Apple
has an official update
available via its Software
Update service. The team also
advised users to select the
lock function to avoid
inadvertent re-enabling of the
service.
This
command can confirm whether
Samba is running (if the
command returns data, the
service is still running):
&
#36; ps -aux | grep smbd |
grep -v
grep
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01.06.2007TCP/IP Fundamentals for Windows “ PDF download available
This online book is a structured, introductory approach to the basic concepts and principles of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
(TCP/IP) protocol suite, how the most important protocols function, and their basic configuration in the Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008,
Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 families of operating systems. This book is primarily a discussion of concepts and principles to lay a conceptual
foundation for the TCP/IP protocol suite and provides an integrated discussion of both Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol
version 6 (IPv6).
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02.06.2008Microsoft sabotaging GPL, claims Samba
Samba project leader Jeremy Allison has accused Microsoft of trying to prevent people using and distributing software under the GNU General Public
Licence, by forcing cross-patent licensing deals.
Allison claimed to ZDNet.com.au sister site ZDNet UK in an email
interview last week that through lawsuits such as the one recently launched against TomTom, Microsoft was attempting to encourage licensing deals
which are proscribed under the GPL.
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11.03.2009Windows Media Player Protocol Rollover
When Windows Media Player connects to a Windows Media server the player tries to use the most efficient protocol for the job. However, the player is
not always able to connect with the first protocol it tries. This is usually due to either a firewall issue or the version of the client and server
that are being used together.
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19.08.2008Windows XP Embedded Update Rollup 1 Released
The Windows XP Embedded team
is pleased to announce that we
have officially released
Update Rollup 1.0 for Windows
XP Embedded. This is the final
release of the product known
in the Beta as Windows XP
Embedded "Feature Preview
2008."
Update Rollup
1.0 includes support for
Windows Media Player 11,
Windows Internet Explorer 7,
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0,
and Remote Desktop Protocol
(RDP) 6.0.
You can
download the Evaluation
Edition now from the
http://www.microsoft.com/downl
oads/details.aspx?FamilyId=70A
79E6F-CE42-45C7-ADD2-52F57959E
CF2&displaylang=en>Microsoft
Download Center. The full
version is scheduled to be
available for download from
the MS OEM Online (MOO)
Software Order Center by June
8, 2007...
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05.06.2007New Windows Live Messenger Protocol breaks Adium and Pidgin
Bad news for us alternative IM client users - mess.be is reporting that the reason for the inability to sign into the Windows Live Messenger network
is due to the recent upgrade to protocol version 15 (or MSNP15), which requires a new certificate for address book retrieval.
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12.01.2009Samba: EU made Microsoft talk again
Australia's very own "smartest man in ICT", Samba hacker Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell, talks to ZDNet.com.au about the days when Microsoft was
run by programmers, not lawyers, and how the software giant has finally started to give open-source developers due credit.
Speaking at the University of Melbourne for the 2008 linux.conf.au, Tridgell -- voted Australia's smartest man in ICT by The Bulletin in
2003 -- expressed his satisfaction at finally being able to communicate with Microsoft engineers again after the European Commission decision to
enforce an interoperability standard between the company and open-source community.
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11.03.2008PGP creator shows off VoIP encryption app
PGP creator Phil Zimmermann is
now focusing his crypto skills
on making VoIP calls more
secure. At the Black Hat
security convention in Las
Vegas, he showed off his
latest version of the Zfone
client that encrypts VoIP
calls. Zfone can be easily
used with most VoIP clients
and, according to Zimmermann,
will appear in future
hardware-based VoIP phones.
Zfone itself
is actually a daemon that runs
under your VoIP client in the
IP protocol stack. It
implements the ZRTP protocol
which is an extension of the
regular VoIP RTP protocol.
Zimmermann, along with Alan
Johnston and PGP CTO Jon
Callas, submitted the protocol
to the IETF as a draft
standard last year.
Zimmermann told
us, śYou can still use your
favorite client on top and
Zfone secures the call.ť
Basically
you can think of Zfone as a
VPN client for your VoIP
because it provides an
encrypted tunnel for calls.
The protocol adds four bytes
of authentication on every
voice packet and encrypts the
RTP data payload with AES
128-bit or higher encryption.
Zimmermann said the protocol
is lightweight and modern
computers shouldnt experience
any noticeable CPU slowdown...
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03.08.2007Nearly 7 years after original, a new Windows XP goes gold
On August 24, 2001, Microsoft released to manufacturing the final version of Windows XP. 6 years and 11 months later, a new version of XP has gone
gold, this time for the OLPC XO computer, also known as the "$100 laptop."..
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26.07.2008VirtualBox 3.0.0 Beta 1
VirtualBox is an application installed on an existing host operating system; within this application, additional operating systems can be loaded and
run, each with its own virtual environment. For example, several Linux distributions can be hosted on a single machine running Windows XP; likewise,
XP and Vista can run on a machine running Linux, and so on. There is a free for personal or evaluation use proprietary version and a GNU General
Public License (GPL) version. FeaturesModularity Virtual machine descriptions in XML Guest Additions for Windows and Linux Shared folders
Virtual USB Controllers Remote Desktop Protocol USB over RDP Download: VirtualBox 3.0.0 Beta 1 View: Changelog
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18.06.2009Tridge confesses: I'm a Sony Reader fan
Linux.conf.au wouldn't be complete without Andrew 'Tridge' Tridgell giving a presentation on the latest developments in Samba, but attendees who
turned up early for his talk this year got an unexpected insight into another one of his passions: the Sony Reader.
With the
crowd steadily building 20 minutes before his talk on Clustered Samba kicked off, Tridge decided to amuse the crowd by demonstrating some recent hacks
he's performed on the Sony Reader, originally purchased as a matrimonial present.
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31.01.2008Security Briefs: Using Protocol Transition—Tips from the Trenches
Now that Windows Server 2003
is widely deployed, Keith
Brown addresses questions from
readers who are trying to use
protocol transition to build
secure gateways into their
intranets...
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27.01.2007Low-Cost Windows XP Comes to
Africa
Microsoft is bringing its
Windows XP Starter Edition
operating system to Africa,
the company announced
Thursday. The lower-priced
version of XP drops home
networking and limits the
number of programs that can be
opened simultaneously...
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28.04.2006Google shuts off anti-phishing feature in Firefox 2.0
Mozilla had announced earlier that it is not planning to do any further security & stability updates for Firefox 2 and the phishing protection service
will no longer be available for Firefox 2 users from January 20, 2009. As announced the phishing protection service has been turned off for Firefox 2.
The phishing sites list (also known as black list) is generated by the Google Search in Firefox 2 using the initial version of the SafeBrowsing
Protocol. Google and Mozilla have updated the SafeBrowsing protocol to version 2.2 now.
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