The main distinguishing feature of Samba 3.0 is that it includes support for Kerberos 5 authentication and LDAP, which are required to act as clients in an Active Directory domain. Another feature that appeared in Samba 3.0 is support for Unicode, which greatly simplifies supporting international languages.
In later Version 3 releases, the Samba team plans to develop support for WINS replication, allowing Samba to act as a secondary WINS server or as a primary WINS server with Windows or Samba secondary WINS servers. Also planned are support for acting as a Windows NT BDC and support for Windows NT domain trust relationships.
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