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3 <H2>The Samba Team are pleased to announce Samba 2.0.0Beta3</H2>
7 The Samba Team are pleased to announce Samba 2.0 Beta3
9 This is the third of (hopefully) a short series of Beta
10 releases of the 2.0 code and incorporates bug fixes and
11 changes from feedback gained from the first two betas.
13 We are relasing these Betas to enable the Samba Team to gain
14 wider testing of the new autoconf mechanism and fix any
15 bugs before the first ship of the new stable version of
18 Samba 2.0 Beta3 is available in source form from
19 samba.org and all of our mirror sites at the url :
21 <a href="/samba/ftp/beta/samba-2.0.0beta3.tar.gz">/samba/ftp/beta/samba-2.0.0beta3.tar.gz </a>
23 Please try this code and give us feedback.
25 If you have problems, or think you have found a bug please email
28 <a href="mailto:samba-bugs@samba.org">samba-bugs@samba.org</a>
30 The WHATSNEW.txt file follows.
32 As always, any bugs are our responsibility,
38 -----------------------------------------------------------
39 Issues fixed between Beta2 and Beta3
40 ------------------------------------
42 1). New parameters added :
45 Designed to allow Samba servers to be set up with
46 no UNIX users and to allow them to create the needed
47 UNIX users on the fly. See the smb.conf documentation
49 2). Autoconf issues including fixes for large file support for
50 Solaris and SINIX, and stat64 tests on SVR4 systems.
51 3). Code dealing with dos pathnames and native pathnames split
52 to be explicit about when Samba is accessing which type of
54 4). Fix for missing PRINTCAP define under HPUX.
55 5). Added Samba specific strtoul().
56 6). Fix for reverse filename mapping with ISO8859-5 filenames.
57 7). Fix for nmbd not starting correctly sometimes due to pid
59 8). Check for error returns in file descriptor limit checking code.
60 9). Kernel oplock code bugfix.
61 10). Restored client retarget code.
62 11). Fix for potential stack overflow in Digital UNIX crypt check.
63 12). Explicitly test for negative uids in smbpasswd file.
64 13). Fix for NT username in Domain logon code.
65 14). Patch from Scott Moomaw <scott@bridgewater.edu> to correctly
66 return "Invalid Info level" to Win95 printer clients.
67 15). Fix to allow NT printer clients to add printers (as 1.9.18
69 16). Fix to prevent ".." being used in servicename.
72 -----------------------------------------------------------
73 Issues fixed between Beta1 and Beta2
74 ------------------------------------
76 1). Many autoconf issues (too many to list here).
77 2). Correctly set default printing for AIX.
78 3). Attempt to fix struct rtentry not being defined problem.
79 4). Convert all open() style calls to wrappers for 64 bit systems.
80 5). Get more 'const' correct.
81 6). Fix bug with O_EXCL not being set on exlusive open requests.
82 7). Fix string_sub() problem with LinPopup.
83 8). Fix lmhosts bug causing only 3 character names to be looked up.
84 9). Fixed bug with NetBIOS pointers in scope names.
85 10). Removed code that was preventing NT3.51 PDC logons from working.
86 11). Fixed crash bug when processing DELETE_ON_CLOSE directive from MS Office.
87 12). Fixed NT4.x problems adding printer.
88 13). Stop multiple logs of NT ACL's not supported messages.
89 14). Changed 'security=server' mode to use *SMBSERVER name if
90 initial connect refused.
91 15). Fixed NT4.x problem with modify times not being preserved
92 on explorer file copy.
93 16). 'Silent' switch for testparm.
94 17). Added 'hosts allow/deny' checks to SWAT.
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99 WHATS NEW IN Samba 2.0.0 beta3
100 ==============================
102 This is a MAJOR new release of Samba, the UNIX based SMB/CIFS file
103 and print server for Windows systems.
105 There have been many changes in Samba since the last major release,
106 1.9.18. These have mainly been in the areas of performance and
107 SMB protocol correctness. In addition, a Web based GUI interface
108 for configuring Samba has been added.
110 In addition, Samba has been re-written to help portability to
111 other POSIX-based systems, based on the GNU autoconf tool.
113 Major changes in Samba 2.0
114 --------------------------
116 There are many major changes in Samba for version 2.0. Here are
119 =====================================================================
124 Samba has been benchmarked on high-end UNIX hardware as out-performing
125 all other SMB/CIFS servers using the Ziff-Davis NetBench benchmark.
126 Many changes to the code to optimise high-end performance have been made.
131 Samba now supports the Windows NT specific SMB requests. This
132 means that on platforms that are capable Samba now presents a
133 64 bit view of the filesystem to Windows NT clients and is
134 capable of handling very large files.
139 Samba is now self-configuring using GNU autoconf, removing
140 the need for people installing Samba to have to hand configure
141 Makefiles, as was needed in previous versions.
143 You now configure Samba by running "./configure" then "make". See
144 docs/textdocs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt for details.
146 4). Web based GUI configuration
147 -------------------------------
149 Samba now comes with SWAT, a web based GUI config system. See
150 the swat man page for details on how to set it up.
152 5). Cross protocol data integrity
153 ---------------------------------
155 An open function interface has been defined to allow
156 "opportunistic locks" (oplocks for short) granted by Samba
157 to be seen by other UNIX processes. This allows complete
158 cross protocol (NFS and SMB) data integrety using Samba
159 with platforms that support this feature.
161 6). Domain client capability
162 ----------------------------
164 Samba is now capable of using a Windows NT PDC for user
165 authentication in exactly the same way that a Windows NT
166 workstation does, i.e. it can be a member of a Domain. See
167 docs/textdocs/DOMAIN_MEMBER.txt for details.
169 7). Documentation Updates
170 -------------------------
172 All the reference parts of the Samba documentation (the
173 manual pages) have been updated and converted to a document
174 format that allows automatic generation of HTML, SGML, and
175 text formats. These documents now ship as standard in HTML
178 =====================================================================
180 NOTE - Some important option defaults changed
181 ---------------------------------------------
183 Several parameters have changed their default values. The most
184 important of these is that the default security mode is now user
185 level security rather than share level security.
187 This (incompatible) change was made to ease new Samba installs
188 as user level security is easier to use for Windows 95/98 and
191 ********IMPORTANT NOTE****************
193 If you have no "security=" line in the [global] section of
194 your current smb.conf and you update to Samba 2.0 you will
195 need to add the line :
199 to get exactly the same behaviour with Samba 2.0 as you
200 did with previous versions of Samba.
202 ********END IMPORTANT NOTE*************
204 In addition, Samba now defaults to case sensitivity options that
205 match a Windows NT server precisely, that is, case insensitive
208 =====================================================================
210 NOTE - Primary Domain Controller Functionality
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213 This version of Samba contains code that correctly implements
214 the undocumented Primary Domain Controller authentication
215 protocols. However, there is much more to being a Primary
216 Domain Controller than serving Windows NT logon requests.
218 A useful version of a Primary Domain Controller contains
219 many remote procedure calls to do things like enumerate users,
220 groups, and security information, only some of which Samba currently
221 implements. In addion, there are outstanding (known) bugs with
222 using Samba as a PDC in this release that the Samba Team are actively
223 working on. For this reason we have chosen not to advertise and
224 actively support Primary Domain Controller functionality with this
227 This work is being done in the CVS (developer) versions of Samba,
228 development of which continues at a fast pace. If you are
229 interested in participating in or helping with this development
230 please join the Samba-NTDOM mailing list. Details on joining
233 <a href="http://samba.org/listproc/">http://samba.org/listproc/</a>
235 Details on obtaining CVS (developer) versions of Samba
238 <a href="http://samba.org/cvs.html">http://samba.org/cvs.html</a>
240 =====================================================================
242 If you have problems, or think you have found a bug please email
245 <a href="mailto:samba-bugs@samba.org">samba-bugs@samba.org</a>
247 As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
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