-What's new in Samba 4 alpha12
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha14
=============================
Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
-Samba4 alpha11 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
-publishing since September 2007
+Samba4 alpha14 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+publishing since September 2007.
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 alpha12 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha14 is not a final Samba release. 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
behaviour. We have to recommend against upgrading production servers
from Samba 3 to Samba 4 at this stage, because there may be the features on
which you may rely that are not present, or the mapping of
-your configuration and user database may not be complete.
+your configuration and user database may not be complete.
If you are upgrading, or looking to develop, test or deploy Samba4, you should
backup all configuration and data.
A new scripting interface has been added to Samba 4, allowing
Python programs to interface to Samba's internals.
-The Samba 4 architecture is based around an LDAP-like database that
-can use a range of modular backends. One of the backends supports
-standards compliant LDAP servers (including OpenLDAP), and we are
-working on modules to map between AD-like behaviours and this backend.
-We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
-directories.
-
-CHANGES SINCE alpha11
+CHANGES SINCE alpha13
=====================
We have continued our commitment to provide a full DRS implementation for our
Our progress on DRS is being tracked in the Samba wiki:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4_DRS_TODO_List
-Beside this the release includes:
-
-* enhancements in Samba4 winbind to provide a fairly good implementation of the
-most important functions needed by "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind"
-The use of this two components allows a user/group mapping for Windows accounts
-on UNIX and UNIX-like systems. Therefore also these accounts can be used to
-connect to services as "ssh", "login", "Xsession" and so on.
-More informations available at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind
-and for winbind in general, "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind" in the Samba 3.X
-documentation.
-
-* server side NT ACLs manipulation
-These can now also be set on the command line directly on the server. See
-"net acl" for further informations.
-
-* dynamic DNS updates
-A new DNS upgrade mechanism has been introduced which works with newer bind9
-releases.
+Beside this the release includes (among a lot of other things):
-* registry improvements
-The registry code was reworked, improved and retested. This was achieved by the
-new torture tests written by gd and some additional testing against Windows
-("regedit" - Windows Registry Editor and "regedt32" - Windows NT Registry Editor).
-Also some real bugs were fixed.
+* a script for backuping production provision
+Although still in development, samba4 is already used in a couple of production sites
+and such kind of use case is intensifying. This script is intendended for administrators
+to allow them to make a periodic backup of the provision in case of problem.
-* new Kerberos HEIMDAL release
-Abartlet imported a new release with various bugfixes
-
-* DCE/RPC code unification work
-Metze started his work to unify these codebases between s3 and s4
-
-* And much more
-We always try to fix bugs and keep improving the (source) quality of our
-program.
+* the 'net' command has been renamed to 'samba-tool'
CHANGES
=======
and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
with this problem).
-- The DRS replication code often fails, and is very new
+- The DRS replication code fails, and is very new
- Users upgrading existing databases to Samba4 should carefully
consult upgrading-samba4.txt. We have made a number of changes in
from Samba3 to Samba4. It's not included yet in the binary distributions
since it's completely experimental!
-- ACL are not set by default on shares created by the provision.
- Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed soon.
-
RUNNING Samba4
==============
-A short guide to setting up Samba 4 can be found in the howto.txt file
-in root of the tarball.
+A short guide to setting up Samba 4 can be found on the wiki:
+
+ http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO
DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK
========================
We need your help! Projects as Samba 4 live from the community feedback. If you
provide expressive bug reports, some documentation snippets on the wiki or some
-real patches - all is appreciated if it meets our quality criterias. Here you
-can find the links:
+real code patches - all is appreciated if it meets our quality criterias. Here
+you can find further references:
Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.samba.org/ but please be aware
-that many features are simply not expected to work at this stage.
+that many features are simply not expected to work at this stage.
The Samba Wiki at http://wiki.samba.org should detail some of these
development plans.
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