25 issues of sambaXP: SerNet keeps the windows open

The recordings from sambaXP 2026 are now online. SerNet has published the presentations from the 25th International User and Developer Conference, which took place on 20 and 21 April 2026 in Göttingen. The full playlist is available on YouTube.

Since 2002, SerNet has been organising sambaXP as a meeting place for the international Samba community. The 25th edition once again demonstrated what the event has been all about for many years: facilitating technical exchange, promoting interoperability and supporting open-source infrastructure in the long term. This work remains particularly important in the context of digital sovereignty: open protocols, transparent implementations and independent infrastructure create freedom of choice.

Under the motto “Opening windows to a wilder world”, developers, users, vendors and contributors came together. The talks covered current work relating to Samba, SMB, Samba AD, authentication, Ceph, IBM Storage Scale, Winbind, Kerberos, OpenRSAT, FreeIPA, SMB over QUIC, SMB-Direct and SMB3 interoperability.

The keynote by Volker Lendecke, co-founder of SerNet GmbH, set the right tone: what began as a look back at 25 editions of sambaXP turned into a tour of key milestones in Samba’s history – from early SMB work through Samba 4 to the structures that shape the project today.

The conference was also closely linked to the SNIA SMB3 IO Lab EMEA, organised by SNIA with the support of Microsoft. Whilst sambaXP offered public talks and discussions, the IO Lab provided a practical environment for SMB3 interoperability testing and direct collaboration on real-world implementations.

SerNet would like to thank all speakers, participants and other contributors, as well as the sponsors Microsoft and Tranquil IT.