- WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18alpha13 Dec 15th 1997
- ========================================
+ WHATS NEW IN 2.0.0 ALPHA SERIES
+ ===============================
-This is NOT a production release of Samba code.
-For production servers please run Samba 1.9.17p4
-or later releases in the 1.9.17 series.
+This is an alpha release of Samba. Releases in this series are done
+automatically every week based on the latest code in the Samba CVS
+tree.
-In this release (1.9.18alpha13) the Domain controller
-code should not be turned on. The Domain controller
-code stream is now being developed in a separate code
-development branch. To participate in this important
-work, send an email to :
+THIS RELEASE IS NOT PRODUCTION QUALITY. IT MAY NOT EVEN COMPILE.
-samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
+If you use this release then be aware of the following:
-to get instructions on how to gain access to
-the latest Domain controller code.
+- only use these releases if you can't use CVS for some
+ reason. Getting the code via anonymous cvs is preferable. See
+ http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html
-This release contains three major changes to the
-1.9.17 series and much re-written code.
+- don't use this code if you are not an experienced programmer. We are
+ doing these releases so that users who cannot access the CVS tree
+ directly for some reason can report/fix bugs. If you find bugs in
+ this release and you want to help fix them then please join the
+ samba-technical mailing list (see http://samba.anu.edu.au/listproc/)
+ and discuss it there.
-The main changes are :
+- the docs are not uptodate. If you find documentation errors then
+ please send patches to fix them. Out of date documentation is one of
+ the main things holding back a Samba 2.0 release.
-1). Oplock support now operational.
------------------------------------
+Major changes in Samba 2.0
+--------------------------
-Samba now supports 'exclusive' and 'batch' oplocks.
-These are an advanced networked file system feature
-that allows clients to obtain a exclusive use of a
-file. This allows a client to cache any changes it
-makes locally, and greatly improves performance.
-
-Windows NT has this feature and prior to this
-release this was one of the reasons Windows NT
-could be faster in some situations. Samba has
-now been benchmarked as out performing Windows
-NT on equivalently priced hardware.
-
-The oplock code in Samba has been extensively
-tested and is believed to be completely stable.
-
-Please report any problems to the samba-bugs alias.
-
-2). NetBIOS name daemon re-written.
------------------------------------
-
-The old nmbd that has caused some users problems
-has now been completely re-written and now is
-much easier to maintain and add changes to.
-
-Changes include support for multi-homed hosts
-in the same way as an NT Server with multiple
-IP interfaces behaves (registers with the WINS
-server as a multi-homed name type), and also
-support for multi-homed name registration in
-the Samba WINS server. Another added feature
-is robustness in the face of WINS server failure,
-nmbd will now keep trying to contact the WINS
-server until it is successful, in the same
-way as an NT Server.
-
-Also in this release is an implementation
-of the Lanman announce protocol used by
-OS/2 clients. Thanks to Jacco de Leeuw for
-this code.
+There have been several major changes in Samba for version 2.0. Here
+are some of them:
-3). New Internationalization support.
--------------------------------------
+1) autoconf
+-----------
-With this release Samba no longer needs to be
-separately compiled for Japanese (Kanji) support,
-the same binary will serve both Kanji and non-Kanji
-clients.
+You now configure Samba by running "./configure" then make. See
+docs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt
-A new method of dynamically loading client code pages
-has been added to allow the case insensitivity to
-be done dependent on the code page of the client.
+2) domain control
+-----------------
-Note that Samba still will only handle one client
-code page at a time. This will be fixed when
-Samba is fully UNICODE enabled.
+Samba can now (mostly) act as a NT primary domain controller and
+domain logon server. Unfortunately this is largely undocumented at the
+moment, but to get you started you want smb.conf entries like this:
-Please see the new man page for make_smbcodepage
-for details on adding additional client code page
-support.
+ domain controller = Yes
+ domain logons = Yes
+ preferred master = Yes
+ domain master = Yes
+[netlogon]
+ path = /data/netlogon
+ read only = No
-Changed code.
--------------
+further documentation on this still needs to be written :)
-Samba no longer needs the libdes library to support
-encrypted passwords. Samba now contains a restricted
-version of DES that can only be used for authentication
-purposes (to comply with the USA export encryption
-regulations and to allow USA Mirror sites to carry
-Samba source code). The 'encrypt passwords' parameter
-may now be used without recompiling.
+3) option defaults changed
+--------------------------
-Much of the internals of Samba has been re-structured
-to support the oplock and Domain controller changes.
+several parameters have changed their default values. The most
+important of these is that the default security mode is now user level
+security rather than share level security.
-An implementation of the Windows 95 automatic printer
-driver installation has been added to smbd. To use this
-new feature please read the document:
+4) web based GUI configuration
+------------------------------
-docs/PRINTER_DRIVER.txt
+Samba now comes with SWAT, a web based GUI config system. See
+swat/README for how to set it up.
-Thanks to Jean-Francois Micouleau for this new code.
+5) change to nmbd default logging behavior
+------------------------------------------
-Printer support on System V systems (notably Solaris)
-has been improved with the addition of code generously
-donated by Norm Jacobs of Sun Microsystems. Sun have
-also made a Solaris SPARC workstation available to the
-Samba Team to aid in their porting efforts.
+The nmbd daemon now appends to pre-existing log files by default. In
+previous releases, nmbd would overwrite old log files. Both nmbd and smbd
+now accept the '-a' and '-o' options, which mean "append" and "overwrite",
+respectively.
-Samba now contains an implementation of share modes
-using System V shared memory as well as the mmap()
-based code. This was done to allow the 'FAST_SHARE_MODES'
-to be used on more systems (especially HPUX 9.x) that
-have System V shared memory, but not the mmap() call.
-The System V shared memory code is used by default on
-many systems as it has benchmarked as faster on many
-systems.
+Minor changes in Samba 2.0
+--------------------------
-The Automount code has been slightly re-shuffled, such
-that the home directory (and profile location) can be
-specified by \\%N\homes and \\%N\homes\profiles
-respectively, which are the defaults for these values.
-If -DAUTOMOUNT is enabled, then %N is the server
-component of the user's NIS auto.home entry. Obviously,
-you will need to be running Samba on the user's home
-server as well as the one they just logged in on.
+1) timestamps on all log messages
+---------------------------------
-The RPC Domain code has been moved into a separate directory
-rpc_pipe/, and a LGPL License issued specifically for code
-in this directory. This is so that people can use this
-code in other projects.
+Both nmbd and smbd now place timestamp headers on all log messages. The
+headers include the time and the message level. On systems with compilers
+that support the necessary macros, the file & function names and the line
+number (of the call to Debug()) will also be listed.
-Missing feature.
-----------------
+2) NetBIOS name server has improved database
+--------------------------------------------
-One feature that we wanted to get into this release
-that was not possible due to the re-write of the nmbd
-code was the scalability features in the Samba WINS server.
-This feature is now tentatively scheduled for the next
-release (1.9.19). Apologies to anyone who was hoping
-for this feature to be included. The nmbd re-write
-will make it much easier to add such things in future.
+The linked list used to store NetBIOS names in the Samba "WINS" database
+has been replaced with a splay-balanced binary tree. This should improve
+speed for installations with very large WINS lists.
-New parameters in smb.conf.
----------------------------
-
-New Global parameters.
-----------------------
-
-Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
-
- "bind interfaces only"
-
- "lm announce"
- "lm interval"
-
- "logon drive"
- "logon home"
-
- "min wins ttl"
- "max wins ttl"
-
- "username level"
-
-New Share level parameters.
----------------------------
-
-Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
-
- "delete veto files"
- "oplocks"
-
-
-Reporting bugs.
----------------
-
-If you have problems, or think you have found a
-bug please email a report to :
-
- samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
-
-Please state the version number of Samba that
-you are running, and *full details* of the steps
-we need to reproduce the problem.
-
-As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
-
-Regards,
-
- The Samba Team.
+There have been lots of other changes as well. We'll add them here as
+we remember them :)
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