14.5.  Samba Account Information Databases

14.5.  Samba Account Information Databases

The latest release of Samba offers many new features including new password database backends not previously available. Samba version 3.0.0 fully supports all databases used in previous versions of Samba. However, although supported, many backends may not be suitable for production use.


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