Releasing Samba 4

One of the important features of the 'master' branch of Samba (which I advocate should be released under Samba 4.0 or some other name) is a new waf-based build system. This build system produces much smaller binaries for both of the file server architectures mentioned in this article.

In terms of the ntvfs file server being part of the Samba4 AD component, it can operate as a standalone server, the AD components only add a small disk overhead in this case.

Andrew Bartlett
Samba Team