- WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18alpha3 Oct 21st 1997
+ WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18 - January 7th 1998.
=======================================
-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 release is being made as alpha3, as an
-incorrect alpha2 was temporarily available from
-the Samba ftp site. As we have no way of knowing
-if some people downloaded this incorrect release
-the safest course seemed to be to increment the
-alpha release number as we wish there to be no
-confusion between releases.
-
-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.
-
-Please note that only the Domain controler code
-is truly experimental. The other changes have
-been extensively tested and are of the same
-quality as normal Samba alpha releases. The
-Domain controler 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.
-
-This release contains three major changes to the
-1.9.17 series and much re-written code.
+This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the
+version that all production Samba servers should be running
+for all current bug-fixes.
+
+This release contains several major changes and much re-written
+code.
The main changes are :
Windows NT has this feature and prior to this
release this was one of the reasons Windows NT
-could be faster in some situations.
+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). Experimental Domain controler code.
----------------------------------------
-
-Samba now contains a *VERY* experimental
-implementation of part of the Windows NT
-4.x Domain Controler specification, as
-published by Paul Ashton (now a Samba Team
-member). This code is not enabled in the
-Makefile by default, and to work on this
-code you must read the file :
-
- docs/NTDOMAIN.txt
-
-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 implementing this
-important feature.
-
-Please do not expect to be able to replace your
-NT Domain Controlers with Samba until this code
-is finished, tested and an announcement is made.
+2). NetBIOS name daemon re-written.
+-----------------------------------
-At present the Domain Controler code is for
-programmers and people interested in Microsoft
-protocols only.
+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.
3). New Internationalization support.
-------------------------------------
for details on adding additional client code page
support.
+4). New Printing support.
+-------------------------
+
+An implementation of the Windows 95 automatic printer
+driver installation has been added to smbd. To use this
+new feature please read the document:
+
+docs/PRINTER_DRIVER.txt
+
+Thanks to Jean-Francois Micouleau, and also Herb Lewis
+of Silicon Graphics for this new code.
+
+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.
+
+
Changed code.
-------------
may now be used without recompiling.
Much of the internals of Samba has been re-structured
-to support the oplock and Domain controler changes.
+to support the oplock and Domain controller changes.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+Missing feature.
+----------------
+
+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.
New parameters in smb.conf.
---------------------------
New Global parameters.
----------------------
-Documented in the smb.con man pages :
+Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
+
+ "bind interfaces only"
+
+ "lm announce"
+ "lm interval"
-"bind interfaces only"
-"username level"
+ "logon drive"
+ "logon home"
-Not yet documented in the smb.conf man page, please
-read docs/NTDOMAIN.txt for information on the next
-parameters.
+ "min wins ttl"
+ "max wins ttl"
-"domain sid"
-"domain groups"
-"logon drive"
-"logon home"
+ "username level"
New Share level parameters.
---------------------------
-Documented in the smb.con man pages :
+Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
-"delete veto files"
-"oplocks"
+ "delete veto files"
+ "oplocks"
+Nascent web interface for configuration.
+----------------------------------------
+
+source/wsmbconf.c is a cgi-bin program for editing smb.conf. It can
+also be run standalone. This is in a very early stage of development.
+
+Debugging support.
+------------------
+
+smbd and nmbd will now modify their debug log level when
+they receive a USR1 signal (increase debug level by one)
+and USR2 signal (decrease debug level by one). This has
+been added to aid administrators track down faults that
+only occur after long periods of time, or transiently.
Reporting bugs.
---------------
If you have problems, or think you have found a
bug please email a report to :
-samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
+ samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
-Stating the version number of Samba that you
-are running, and *full details* of the steps
+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.
+
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