The agenda for sambaXP 2018 is here

This year marks the 17th iteration of the international user and developer conference Samba eXPerience. The sambaXP 2018 will take place June 5-7 at the Hotel Freizeit In (Dransfelder Straße 3, 37079 Göttingen, Germany). The agenda is online now and filled with lots of different Samba topics, addressing basic usage scenarios as well as very-large-scale Samba. The full program is published at the conference website (https://sambaxp.org). sambaXP 2018 is organized by SerNet and sponsored by Google, Microsoft and RedHat.

sambaXP chairman Jeremy Allison will introduce "Samba and ChromeOS - the Start of a Beautiful Friendship" on Wednesday, June 6th. Kevin Kunkel (Indeed, Inc.) will give "Global Samba4 AD Domain Tips and Tricks" while David Disseldorp (SUSE) will "Release the Kraken: Samba and Ceph". Pieter Hollants (IT-Systemmanagement Pieter Hollants) deals with "Service Layering - Integrating Samba with existing DNS infrastructure" while Andreas Schneider (Red Hat) turns to "Unit testing and mocking in Samba development". Kai Blin will follow up on his 2017 "Samba, Quo vadis?" talk with "Let's Rust in Samba" and Amitay Isaacs (IBM Australia) will talk about "CTDB database vacuuming for geniuses!"

Stefan Metzmacher (SerNet) will kick off the second conference day with a "Trusts Status Update". Further talks on Thursday deal with e.g. "Patterns and anti-patterns in Samba development" (Andrew Bartlett, Catalyst IT) and "smbcmp: a handy network capture diff tool for SMB traffic" (Aurélien Aptel, SUSE). Alexander Bokovoy (Red Hat) asks how to improve Samba user experience with "Goodbye SWAT, welcome Cockpit?" and Martin Schwenke (IBM Australia) delves into "CTDB, you have changed!" Edgar Olougouna (Microsoft) will reflect on "Microsoft Windows Protocols – Active Support" and the decade-long cooperation between Microsoft and Samba. Finally Tom Talpey (Microsoft) will have a look into the state of the SMB3 protocol and ongoing development, in Windows products and related services, especially as they relate to Samba.

Conference tickets are still available at https://sambaxp.org and priced at 499 Euro.

Stefan Kania will give his traditional tutorial on Tuesday, June 5th. This year’s topic is "Securing a Samba-Fileserver inside an Active Directory“. The participation fee is 450 Euro. Free spots for the tutorial are in high demand – be sure to secure your ticket soon.