1 WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alphaX
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5 - hide unreadable fix using acl fns (jra)
6 - lsa_open_policy cleanup (jfm)
7 - mangled directories fix (jra)
8 - fix error return on bad pipe (jra)
9 - fix homes share with no home dir (tpot)
10 - fixed handling of dead or empty domains in winbindd (tridge)
11 - added talloc torture program (mbp)
12 - talloc debug code (mbp)
13 - added trusted domains to winbindd/ADS (tridge)
14 - fix trusted domains in auth code (tridge)
15 - new gss error handling code (a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net & tridge)
16 - support mixed ADS/NT4 domains (tridge)
19 - nicer net error messages (tpot)
20 - trust account patches (mimir)
21 - solaris link option update (davecb)
22 - added lsa_query_secobj() server fn (jfm)
23 - spoolss changeid fix (jerry)
24 - domain auth error fix (jmcd)
26 - set filetime on close fix (jra)
27 - allow select of org unit in ads join (tridge)
30 - fixed compile of wb_client.c (tridge)
31 - fixed net time to use localtime (tridge)
32 - net help cleanups (jmcd)
33 - debug level fix (tpot)
34 - utmp string length fixes (monyo)
39 - added "net ads info" to probe basic into on your ads server without
41 - improved some error handling
45 - added "net time zone" command (tridge)
46 - pam_smbpass updates (a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net)
48 - net rpc join handles existing machine acct (tridge)
52 - added "net time" command (tridge)
53 - allow client tools to specify a hostname of form HOST#xx (tridge)
54 - added wbinfo --set-auth-user (tpot)
55 - added lsaquerysecobj to rpcclient (tpot)
59 - fixed nexus/win9x user list (jfm)
60 - fixed large user/group lists in winbindd (tridge)
61 - fixed gssapi headers in redhat (jmcd)
62 - fixed rap error code handling (jra)
63 - more usermanager rpc calls (jfm)
64 - re-added RAP calls at top level to net command (tridge)
68 - fixed a silly tdb bug in alpha2 that affected internal databases
72 - we no longer use cyrus-sasl for LDAP SASL/gssapi. This makes our ADS
73 code much more robust.
74 - winbindd cache code rewritten to be much more efficient. It also
75 copes much better with server outages.
76 - jfm implemented full group mapping and smb.conf option 'domain admin
77 group' is now gone. Consult the GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt to know how
78 to gain back administrator rights.
80 - numerous small bugfixes
84 - winbindd now uses LDAP and works correctly with an ADS server in
86 - XFS quotas code on Linux
87 - group mapping code from JFM
88 - "net rpc join" command replaces smbpasswd -j
89 - fixed winbind initgroups
93 This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0 alpha0. This is NOT a stable
94 release. Use at your own risk.
96 The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
97 new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We are
98 planning on ceasing development on the 2.2.x release of Samba very
99 shortly and after that we will be concentrating on Samba 3.0. To
100 reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0 release we need as many
101 poeple as possible to start testing these alpha releases, and
102 hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs fixing.
104 Note that Samba 3.0 is not anywhere near feature complete yet. There
105 is a lot more coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have
106 done already more widely tested we will have a hard time doing a
107 stable release in a reasonable time frame.
109 This release is also missing major pieces of documentation, and there
110 are many parts of the docs that have not been updated to reflect the
111 new options and features in 3.0.
116 - Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
117 as a member server and authenticate users using
118 LDAP/kerberos. Please read ADS-HOWTO.txt in the release for a very
119 rough guide on how to set this up.
121 - Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate unicode on the wire and
122 interally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
123 and unicode character sets. You may need the "dos charset", "unix
124 charset" and "display charset" options. The unicode support is not
127 - New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
128 been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
129 but the new auth system is also very configurable. Not documented
132 - new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
133 completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
134 persistantly. This needs lots of testing.
136 - new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
137 somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
138 to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
139 subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
142 - Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
143 improves error handling a lot.
145 - better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000
146 clients has improved greatly.
148 Plus lots of other changes!
150 Note that many new features are not documented. Don't let this stop
151 you from using Samba 3.0. It is particularly important that the basic
152 file/print serving abilities of Samba 3.0 are widely tested to ensure
153 that we have not broken any of the basic functionality. As we do more
154 alpha releases we will start to document the new features.
157 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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160 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
161 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net
163 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
164 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
165 the problem then you will probably be ignored.