1 WHATS NEW IN 2.0.0 ALPHA SERIES
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4 This is an alpha release of Samba. Releases in this series are done
5 automatically every week based on the latest code in the Samba CVS
8 THIS RELEASE IS NOT PRODUCTION QUALITY. IT MAY NOT EVEN COMPILE.
10 If you use this release then be aware of the following:
12 - only use these releases if you can't use CVS for some
13 reason. Getting the code via anonymous cvs is preferable. See
14 http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html
16 - don't use this code if you are not an experienced programmer. We are
17 doing these releases so that users who cannot access the CVS tree
18 directly for some reason can report/fix bugs. If you find bugs in
19 this release and you want to help fix them then please join the
20 samba-technical mailing list (see http://samba.anu.edu.au/listproc/)
23 - the docs are not uptodate. If you find documentation errors then
24 please send patches to fix them. Out of date documentation is one of
25 the main things holding back a Samba 2.0 release.
27 Major changes in Samba 2.0
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30 There have been several major changes in Samba for version 2.0. Here
36 You now configure Samba by running "./configure" then make. See
42 Samba can now (mostly) act as a NT primary domain controller and
43 domain logon server. Unfortunately this is largely undocumented at the
44 moment, but to get you started you want smb.conf entries like this:
46 domain controller = Yes
48 preferred master = Yes
55 further documentation on this still needs to be written :)
57 3) option defaults changed
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60 several parameters have changed their default values. The most
61 important of these is that the default security mode is now user level
62 security rather than share level security.
64 4) web based GUI configuration
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67 Samba now comes with SWAT, a web based GUI config system. See
68 swat/README for how to set it up.
71 There have been lots of other changes as well. We'll add them here as