-This is a development version of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and
-server for UNIX and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by
-the Samba Team, who support the original author, Andrew Tridgell.
+Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
+developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
+this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
+by Windows 2000 and above.
+
+While we welcome your interest in Samba 4, we don't want you to run your network with it quite yet. Please note the WARNINGS below, and the STATUS file,
+which aims to document what should and should not work.
+
+With 4 years of development under our belt since Tridge first proposed
+a new Virtual File System (VFS) layer for Samba3 (a project which
+eventually lead to our Active Directory efforts), we felt that we
+should create something we could 'show off' to our users. This is a
+Technology Preview (TP), aimed at allowing you, our users, managers and
+developers to see how we have progressed, and to invite your feedback and
+support.
+
+WARNINGS
+========
+
+Samba4 TP is currently a pre-alpha technology. 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
+Samba4, you would find many things work, but that other key features
+you may have relied on simply are not there yet.
+
+For example, while Samba 3.0 is an excellent member of a Active
+Directory domain, Samba4 is happier as a domain controller: (This is
+where we have done most of the research and development).
+
+While Samba4 is subjected to an awesome battery of tests on an
+automated basis, and we have found Samba4 to be very stable in it's
+behaviour, we have to recommend against upgrading production servers
+from Samba 3 to Samba 4 at this stage. If you are upgrading an
+experimental server, or looking to develop and test Samba, you should
+backup all configuration and data.
+
+As we research the needs of Active Directory integration more closely,
+we may need to change the format of the user database, in particular
+as we begin to understand how the attributes are generated and stored.
+At a worst case, we expect users will be able to extract the stored
+data as LDIF and hand munge it, but until we make an alpha release, we
+won't do this automatically. Indeed, many module changes are simply
+easier to cope with if you just re-provision after the upgrade.
+
+We value the security of your computers, and so we must warn you that
+Samba 4 Technology Preview includes basic Access Control List (ACL)
+protection on the main user database, but due to time constraints,
+none on the registry at this stage. We also do not currently have
+ACLs on the SWAT web-based management tool. This means that Samba 4
+Technology Preview is not secure, and should not be exposed to
+untrusted networks.
+
+Within the above proviso, file system access should occur as the
+logged in user, much as Samba3 does.
+
+As such, we must strongly recommend against using Samba4 in a
+production environment at this stage.
+
+NEW FEATURES
+============
+
+Samba4 supports the server-side of the Active Directory logon environment
+used by Windows 2000 and later, so we can do full domain join
+and domain logon operations with these clients.
+
+Our Domain Controller (DC) implementation includes our own built-in
+LDAP server and Kerberos Key Distribution Centre (KDC) as well as the
+Samba3-like logon services provided over CIFS. We correctly generate
+the infamous Kerberos PAC, and include it with the Kerberos tickets we
+issue.
+
+SWAT is now integrated into Samba 4 as the user-friendly interface to
+Samba server management. SWAT provides easy access to our
+setup and migration tools. Using SWAT, you can migrate windows
+domains in Samba 4, allowing easy setup of initial user databases, and
+upgrades from Samba 3.
+
+The new VFS features in Samba 4 adapts the file-system on the server to
+match the Windows client semantics, allowing Samba 4 to better match
+windows behaviour and application expectations. This includes file
+annotation information (in streams) and NT ACLs in particular. The
+VFS is backed with an extensive automated test suite.
+
+A new scripting interface has been added to Samba 4, allowing
+JavaScript 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 back-end.
+We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful front-end to large
+directories.
+
+CHANGES
+=======
+
+Those familiar with Samba 3 can find a list of user-visible changes
+since that release series in the NEWS file.
+
+ - An optional password is no longer supported as the second argument to
+ smbclient.
+
+ - The default location of smb.conf in non-FHS builds has changed from the
+ PREFIX/lib directory to the PREFIX/etc directory.
+
+KNOWN ISSUES
+============
+
+- Standalone server and domain member roles are not currently
+ supported. While we have much of the infrastructure required, we
+ have not collected these pieces together.
+
+- There is no printing support in the current release.
+
+- SWAT can be painful with <TAB> and forms. Just use the mouse, as
+ the JavaScript layer doing this will change.
+
+RUNNING Samba4
+==============
+
+A short guide to setting up Samba 4 can be found in the howto.txt file
+in root of the tarball.
+
+DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK
+========================
+Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.samba.org/. Please
+look at the STATUS file before filing a bug to see if a particular
+is supposed to work yet.
+
+Development and general discussion about Samba 4 happens mainly on
+the #samba-technical IRC channel (on irc.freenode.net) and
+the samba-technical mailing list (see http://lists.samba.org/ for
+details).
->>>> Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information
->>>> about the configuration and use of Samba.
-
-NOTE: Installation instructions may be found in
- docs/htmldocs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/install.html
-
-This software is freely distributable under the GNU public license, a
-copy of which you should have received with this software (in a file
-called COPYING).
-
-
-WHAT IS SMB/CIFS?
-=================
-
-This is a big question.
-
-The very short answer is that it is the protocol by which a lot of
-PC-related machines share files and printers and other information
-such as lists of available files and printers. Operating systems that
-support this natively include Windows 9x, Windows NT (and derivatives),
-OS/2, Mac OS X and Linux. Add on packages that achieve the same
-thing are available for DOS, Windows 3.1, VMS, Unix of all kinds,
-MVS, and more. Some Web Browsers can speak this protocol as well
-(smb://). Alternatives to SMB include Netware, NFS, Appletalk,
-Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have advantages but none are
-both public specifications and widely implemented in desktop machines
-by default.
-
-The Common Internet File system (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative
-is called. For details watch http://samba.org/cifs.
-
-
-WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB?
-==============================
-
-1. Many people want to integrate their Microsoft desktop clients
- with their Unix servers.
-
-2. Others want to integrate their Microsoft (etc) servers with Unix
- servers. This is a different problem to integrating desktop
- clients.
-
-3. Others want to replace protocols like NFS, DecNet and Novell NCP,
- especially when used with PCs.
-
-
-WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
-==================
-
-Please refer to the WHATSNEW.txt included with this README for
-a list of features in the latest Samba release.
-
-Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does.
-For many networks this can be simply summarized by "Samba provides
-a complete replacement for Windows NT, Warp, NFS or Netware servers."
-
-- a SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print
- services to SMB clients such as Windows 95, Warp Server, smbfs and others.
-
-- a Windows NT 4.0 Domain Controller replacement.
-
-- a file/print server that can act as a member of a Windows NT 4.0
- or Active Directory domain.
-
-- a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which amongst other things gives
- browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish.
-
-- a ftp-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and
- printers) from UNIX, Netware, and other operating systems
-
-- a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs
-
-- limited command-line tool that supports some of the NT administrative
- functionality, which can be used on Samba, NT workstation and NT server.
-
-For a much better overview have a look at the web site at
-http://samba.org/samba, and browse the user survey.
-
-Related packages include:
-
-- smbfs, a Linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount remote SMB
-filesystems from PCs on your Linux box. This is included as standard with
-Linux 2.0 and later.
-
-- cifsvfs, a more advanced Linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount
-remote SMB filesystems from PCs on your Linux box. This is included
-as standard with Linux 2.5 and later.
-
-
-
-CONTRIBUTIONS
-=============
-
-If you want to contribute to the development of the software then
-please join the mailing list. The Samba team accepts patches
-(preferably in "diff -u" format, see http://samba.org/samba/devel/
-for more details) and are always glad to receive feedback or
-suggestions to the address samba@lists.samba.org. More information
-on the various Samba mailing lists can be found at http://lists.samba.org/.
-
-You can also get the Samba sourcecode straight from the Subversion tree - see
-http://samba.org/samba/subversion.html.
-
-You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or pre-paid pizza
-vouchers directly to Andrew. The pizza vouchers would be especially
-welcome, in fact there is a special field in the survey for people who
-have paid up their pizza :-)
-
-If you like a particular feature then look through the Subversion change-log
-(on the web at http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi) and see
-who added it, then send them an email.
-
-Remember that free software of this kind lives or dies by the response
-we get. If no one tells us they like it then we'll probably move onto
-something else. However, as you can see from the user survey quite a lot of
-people do seem to like it at the moment :-)
-
-
-MORE INFO
-=========
-
-DOCUMENTATION
--------------
-
-There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package,
-including man pages, and lots of .html files with hints and useful
-info. This is also available from the web page. There is a growing
-collection of information under docs/.
-
-A list of Samba documentation in languages other than English is
-available on the web page.
-
-If you would like to help with the documentation (and we _need_ help!)
-then have a look at the mailing list samba-docs, archived at
-http://lists.samba.org/listinfo/samba-docs/
-
-
-MAILING LIST
-------------
-
-Please do NOT send subscription/unsubscription requests to the lists!
-
-There is a mailing list for discussion of Samba. For details go to
-<http://lists.samba.org/> or send mail to <samba-subscribe@lists.samba.org>
-
-There is also an announcement mailing list where new versions are
-announced. To subscribe go to <http://lists.samba.org/> or send mail
-to <samba-announce-subscribe@lists.samba.org>. All announcements also
-go to the samba list, so you only need to be on one.
-
-For details of other Samba mailing lists and for access to archives, see
-<http://lists.samba.org/>
-
-
-MAILING LIST ETIQUETTE
-----------------------
-
-A few tips when submitting to this or any mailing list.
-
-1. Make your subject short and descriptive. Avoid the words "help" or
- "Samba" in the subject. The readers of this list already know that
- a) you need help, and b) you are writing about samba (of course,
- you may need to distinguish between Samba PDC and other file
- sharing software). Avoid phrases such as "what is" and "how do
- i". Some good subject lines might look like "Slow response with
- Excel files" or "Migrating from Samba PDC to NT PDC".
-
-2. If you include the original message in your reply, trim it so that
- only the relevant lines, enough to establish context, are
- included. Chances are (since this is a mailing list) we've already
- read the original message.
-
-3. Trim irrelevant headers from the original message in your
- reply. All we need to see is a) From, b) Date, and c) Subject. We
- don't even really need the Subject, if you haven't changed
- it. Better yet is to just preface the original message with "On
- [date] [someone] wrote:".
-
-4. Please don't reply to or argue about spam, spam filters or viruses
- on any Samba lists. We do have a spam filtering system that is
- working quite well thank you very much but occasionally unwanted
- messages slip through. Deal with it.
-
-5. Never say "Me too." It doesn't help anyone solve the
- problem. Instead, if you ARE having the same problem, give more
- information. Have you seen something that the other writer hasn't
- mentioned, which may be helpful?
-
-6. If you ask about a problem, then come up with the solution on your
- own or through another source, by all means post it. Someone else
- may have the same problem and is waiting for an answer, but never
- hears of it.
-
-7. Give as much *relevant* information as possible such as Samba
- release number, OS, kernel version, etc...
-
-8. RTFM. Google. groups.google.com.
-
-
-NEWS GROUP
-----------
-
-You might also like to look at the usenet news group comp.protocols.smb
-as it often contains lots of useful info and is frequented by lots of
-Samba users. The newsgroup was initially setup by people on the Samba
-mailing list. It is not, however, exclusive to Samba, it is a forum for
-discussing the SMB protocol (which Samba implements). The samba list
-is gatewayed to this newsgroup.
-
-
-WEB SITE
---------
-
-A Samba WWW site has been setup with lots of useful info. Connect to:
-
-http://samba.org/samba/
-
-As well as general information and documentation, this also has searchable
-archives of the mailing list and a user survey that shows who else is using
-this package. Have you registered with the survey yet? :-)
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