Download Samba

Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix. It is Free Software licensed under the GNU General Public License, the Samba project is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

The Samba source code is distributed via https. View the download area via HTTPS. The file you probably want is called samba-latest.tar.gz. Old releases are available in the Samba archives.

Releases

Current stable release

Release History

Maintenance

The Samba distribution GPG public key can be used to verify that current releases have not been tampered with. Using GnuPG, simply download the Samba source distribution, the tarball signature, and the Samba distribution public key. Then run

                $ gpg --import samba-pubkey.asc
                $ gunzip samba-version.tar.gz
                $ gpg --verify samba-release.tar.asc
                gpg: Signature made Tue 20 Nov 2007 07:12:04 PM CST using \
                DSA key ID 6568B7EA
                gpg: Good signature from "Samba Distribution Verification Key \
                ‹[email protected]›

It is recommended that you also review the list of patches for current releases. For information on Samba security releases, please see the security page.

Binaries

All major Linux and Free Unix distributions have Samba as a native package. See your distributor's package or port system for a native install of samba on your system.

https://samba.plus/ offers Samba packages for SLES, RHEL, and Debian and AIX.

http://en.openSUSE.org/Samba offers Samba packages for all SuSE Linux products (including SLES).

Git Sources

You can also fetch the sources using the GIT source code control system. The advantage of fetching via GIT is can update your sources at any time using a single command. See the Git instructions.

Tools

Samba GUI managers
- Wireshark (decodes NetBIOS, SMB/CIFS, & MS-RPC)
- tcpdump (command line packet sniffer)
NetBIOS Auditing Tool (NAT)
- wsdd is a Web Service Discovery (WSD) daemon written in Python
- wsdd2 is a WSD/LLMNR dicovery daemon written in C
- nbfw, the NetBIOS forwarder (obsolete)

SMB/CIFS Clients

Microsoft's various clients

WFWG3.11
LanMan for DOS
LanMan for OS/2 (v1.2, 1.3 or 2.x, Warp 3.0, not Warp connect)
MSClient 3.0 for DOS.

Check the README.NOW file for details.

Please note: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows NT, Windows 95, OS/2 Warp Connect and OS/2 Warp 4 clients don't need any extra software in order to run talk to a Samba server. These OS's come standard with TCP/IP which is all you need.

Mac OS X also ships with a native CIFS client. Since OS X 10.9 Apple moved away from AFP to SMB as standard file sharing protocol.

Several flavors of BSD — FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD — ship with smbfs support.

Linux CIFS VFS
Dave (Macintosh) (obslete)