Samba 4.6 Released With Various Printing/Sharing Changes

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Samba 4.6 Released With Various Printing/Sharing Changes

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 9 March 2017 at 06:14 AM EST. Add A Comment

Samba 4.6.0 is now available as the project's latest stable release for SMB/CIFS support on Linux systems.

Samba 4.6 features changes to the Kerberos client encryption type, support for uploading Windows 10 printer drivers, various printing driver upload fixes, the netlogon server in Samba AD DC can run as multiple processes, some performance improvements, Samba Tool's DNS sub-command is now more robust, winbind changes, and various other changes.

More details on Samba 4.6 via Samba.org.

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