- WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18alpha6 Oct 26th 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.
-This release contains some experimental features and
-changes and is being made available so people can
-test and provide feedback and patches for ongoing
-Samba development.
+THIS RELEASE IS NOT PRODUCTION QUALITY. IT MAY NOT EVEN COMPILE.
-Please note that only the Domain controller code
-is truly experimental. The other changes have
-been extensively tested and are of the same
-quality as normal Samba alpha releases. The
-Domain controller code is disabled in the Makefile
-by default and is being made available to Samba
-programmers in the interests of advancing a
-public implementation of this important protocol.
+If you use this release then be aware of the following:
-This release contains three major changes to the
-1.9.17 series and much re-written 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
+- 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 Out of date documentation is one of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.
+There have been several major changes in Samba for version 2.0. Here
+are some of them:
-Windows NT has this feature and prior to this
-release this was one of the reasons Windows NT
-could be faster in some situations.
+1) autoconf
+-----------
-The oplock code in Samba has been extensively
-tested and is believed to be completely stable.
+You now configure Samba by running "./configure" then make. See
+docs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt
-Please report any problems to the samba-bugs alias.
+2) domain control
+-----------------
+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:
-2). Experimental Primary Domain controller code.
-------------------------------------------------
+ domain controller = Yes
+ domain logons = Yes
+ preferred master = Yes
+ domain master = Yes
-Samba now contains a *VERY* experimental client and
-server implementation of part of the Windows NT
-4.x Domain Controller specification, as
-published by Paul Ashton (now a Samba Team
-member).
+[netlogon]
+ path = /data/netlogon
+ read only = No
-This code is not enabled in the Makefile by default,
-and to work on this code you must read the file :
+further documentation on this still needs to be written :)
- docs/NTDOMAIN.txt
+3) option defaults changed
+--------------------------
-Please note that as this code is not complete,
-it is being made available as part of this release
-to allow interested parties to contribute and help
-the Samba Team in documenting and implementing
-this important feature.
+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.
-Please do not expect to be able to replace your
-NT Domain Controllers with Samba until this code
-is finished, tested and an announcement is made.
+4) web based GUI configuration
+------------------------------
-At present the Domain Controller code is for
-programmers and people interested in Microsoft
-protocols only.
+Samba now comes with SWAT, a web based GUI config system. See
+swat/README for how to set it up.
+5) change to nmbd default logging behavior
+------------------------------------------
-3). New Internationalization support.
--------------------------------------
+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.
-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.
-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.
+Minor changes in Samba 2.0
+--------------------------
-Note that Samba still will only handle one client
-code page at a time. This will be fixed when
-Samba is fully UNICODE enabled.
+1) timestamps on all log messages
+---------------------------------
-Please see the new man page for make_smbcodepage
-for details on adding additional client code page
-support.
+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.
+2) NetBIOS name server has improved database
+--------------------------------------------
-Changed code.
--------------
+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.
-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.
-
-Much of the internals of Samba has been re-structured
-to support the oplock and Domain controller changes.
-
-The WINS client and WINS server capabilities in nmbd
-are also being restructured, to make it easier to
-understand and maintain.
-
-Samba supports the NT 3.51 and 4.0 Domain Authentication
-Protocol to a degree sufficient to download Profiles to an
-NT 3.51 or 4.0Workstation.
-
-"Welcome to the SAMBA Domain".
-
-There is also code in smbclient to generate the same
-requests as an NT Workstation would when doing an NT
-Domain Logon. This has only been tested against a Samba
-"Experimental" PDC so far.
-
-Some of the new parameters for NT Domain Logons and
-Profile support are now also used by the Win95 Domain
-Logons and Profile support.
-
-The Automount code has been slightly reshuffled, 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.
-
-
-New parameters in smb.conf.
----------------------------
-
-New Global parameters.
-----------------------
-
-Documented in the smb.con man pages :
-
-"bind interfaces only"
-"username level"
-
-"domain sid"
-"domain groups"
-
-"logon drive"
-"logon home"
-
-
-Not yet documented in the smb.conf man page, please
-read docs/NTDOMAIN.txt or examine the source code for
-information on the next parameters :
-
-"domain other sids"
-"domain admin users"
-"domain guest users"
-
-
-New Share level parameters.
----------------------------
-
-Documented in the smb.con 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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