The recently released Windows Update KB5028185/KB5028166 (July 11, 2023) breaks client authentication to Samba AD DCs. Other impacts are possible, further investigation is needed. The Samba team and SerNet are already working on a solution. 

We will provide SAMBA+ updates as soon as we have a fix.

"Samba" is one of SerNet's main fields of activity - be it development, support, providing the SAMBA+ packages or organizing conferences. The open source SMB implementation is developed by an international community (see also Samba Team) committed to the highest technological standards and free…

"ksmbd", a new kernel module which implements an SMB server, was introduced with Linux Kernel 5.15 in November 2021. The Samba Team at SerNet has posted an article at https://samba.plus in which ksmbd and the existing Samba fileserver "smbd" are addressed in comparison

The article "ksmbd: a new…

Ralph Böhme is the new team leader of the Samba team at SerNet. In addition, Jule Anger (also SerNet) takes over release management in the international Samba team.

Karolin Seeger, who was previously responsible for team leadership at SerNet and release management on the core team, is moving…

The year 2020 also brought new challenges for the Samba eXPerience: The 19th international conference revolving around the OpenSource software Samba took place from 26th - 28th May 2020 for the first time exclusively in digital form. The annual meeting of the international Samba team, which is…