+Readme for Samba 4
+==================
+
Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
-While we welcome your interest in Samba 4, we don't want you to run your network with it quite yet. Please note the WARNINGS below, and the STATUS file,
-which aims to document what should and should not work.
+While we welcome your interest in Samba 4, we don't want you to run your
+network with it quite yet. Please note the WARNINGS below, and the
+STATUS file, which aims to document what should and should not work.
With 4 years of development under our belt since Tridge first proposed
a new Virtual File System (VFS) layer for Samba3 (a project which
developers to see how we have progressed, and to invite your feedback and
support.
-WARNINGS
-========
+Warnings
+--------
-Samba4 TP is currently a pre-alpha technology. That is more a
-reference to Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need
-than a statement of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad
-deployment yet. If you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to
-Samba4, you would find many things work, but that other key features
-you may have relied on simply are not there yet.
+Samba4 is currently at alpha stage. That is more a reference to
+Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need than a statement
+of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad deployment yet. If
+you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to Samba4, you would find
+many things work, but that other key features you may have relied on
+simply are not there yet.
For example, while Samba 3.0 is an excellent member of a Active
Directory domain, Samba4 is happier as a domain controller: (This is
As such, we must strongly recommend against using Samba4 in a
production environment at this stage.
-NEW FEATURES
-============
+New Features
+------------
Samba4 supports the server-side of the Active Directory logon environment
used by Windows 2000 and later, so we can do full domain join
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful front-end to large
directories.
-CHANGES
-=======
+Changes
+-------
Those familiar with Samba 3 can find a list of user-visible changes
since that release series in the NEWS file.
- - An optional password is no longer supported as the second argument to
- smbclient.
+- An optional password is no longer supported as the second argument to
+ smbclient.
- - The default location of smb.conf in non-FHS builds has changed from the
- PREFIX/lib directory to the PREFIX/etc directory.
+- The default location of smb.conf in non-FHS builds has changed from the
+ PREFIX/lib directory to the PREFIX/etc directory.
-KNOWN ISSUES
-============
+Known issues
+------------
- Standalone server and domain member roles are not currently
supported. While we have much of the infrastructure required, we
- have not collected these pieces together.
+ have not collected these pieces together.
- There is no printing support in the current release.
- SWAT can be painful with <TAB> and forms. Just use the mouse, as
the JavaScript layer doing this will change.
-RUNNING Samba4
-==============
+Running Samba4
+--------------
A short guide to setting up Samba 4 can be found in the howto.txt file
in root of the tarball.
-DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK
-========================
+Development and feedback
+------------------------
+
Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.samba.org/. Please
look at the STATUS file before filing a bug to see if a particular
is supposed to work yet.
the samba-technical mailing list (see http://lists.samba.org/ for
details).
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