-What's new in Samba 4 alpha8
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha9
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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 alpha8 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
+Samba4 alpha9 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007
WARNINGS
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-Samba4 alpha8 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
+Samba4 alpha9 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
We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
-CHANGES SINCE alpha7
+CHANGES SINCE alpha8
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In the time since Samba4 alpha7 was released in Feburary 2009, Samba has
continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas
(in no particular order):
- Samba4 now includes the full AD schema, as used in Microsoft Windows 2008
+ Samba4 now includes the full set of user interface strings (display Specifiers) required to
+ have the Microsoft Management Console operate
- LDB (the core Samba4 database library) now handles large number of
- users and groups much more efficiently
+ LDB (the core Samba4 database library) has again been reworked for
+ better performance
+
+ Replication between Samba4 and Active Directory domains using the
+ native replication protocol (DRS) has been demonstrated.
+
+ Access Control Lists (in nTSecurityDescriptor) are now set correctly
+ on objects in the directory, based on the same rules as Windows 2008.
+ (Searches and modifications still use a simplistic administrator/not
+ administrator criteria)
These are just some of the user-visible highlights of the work done in
the past few months. More details of the work done 'under the hood'
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
+
+- Users upgrading existing databases to Samba4 should carefully
+ consult upgrading-samba4.txt. We have made a number of changes in
+ this release that should make it easier to upgrade in future.
+
RUNNING Samba4
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