- WHATS NEW IN 1.9.17alpha1 - May 21st 1997.
- ==========================================
+ WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alphaX
+ =============================
+
+Changes in alpha12
+- doc updates (jerry)
+- store domain sid on ADS join (tridge)
+- allow a winbind username on ADS connection (tridge)
+
+Changes in alpha11
+- fixed fallback to "ads server" option (tridge)
+- fix ACL failure on HP HFS (jra)
+- net ads password and net ads chostpass commands (Remus Koos)
+- fixed valid char array generation (tridge)
+- fixed QFS_INFO for win98 long filenames (tridge)
+- added net lookup command (tridge)
+- fixed map to guest with spnego (tridge)
+- fixed irix warnings (tridge)
+
+
+Changes in alpha10
+- hide unreadable fix using acl fns (jra)
+- lsa_open_policy cleanup (jfm)
+- mangled directories fix (jra)
+- fix error return on bad pipe (jra)
+- fix homes share with no home dir (tpot)
+- fixed handling of dead or empty domains in winbindd (tridge)
+- added talloc torture program (mbp)
+- talloc debug code (mbp)
+- added trusted domains to winbindd/ADS (tridge)
+- fix trusted domains in auth code (tridge)
+- new gss error handling code (a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net & tridge)
+- support mixed ADS/NT4 domains (tridge)
+
+Changes in alpha9
+- nicer net error messages (tpot)
+- trust account patches (mimir)
+- solaris link option update (davecb)
+- added lsa_query_secobj() server fn (jfm)
+- spoolss changeid fix (jerry)
+- domain auth error fix (jmcd)
+- HPUX acl code (jra)
+- set filetime on close fix (jra)
+- allow select of org unit in ads join (tridge)
+
+Changes in alpha8
+- fixed compile of wb_client.c (tridge)
+- fixed net time to use localtime (tridge)
+- net help cleanups (jmcd)
+- debug level fix (tpot)
+- utmp string length fixes (monyo)
+
+
+Changes in alpha7
+
+- added "net ads info" to probe basic into on your ads server without
+ any authentication
+- improved some error handling
+
+Changes in alpha6
+
+- added "net time zone" command (tridge)
+- pam_smbpass updates (a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net)
+- irix updates (herb)
+- net rpc join handles existing machine acct (tridge)
+
+Changes in alpha5
+
+- added "net time" command (tridge)
+- allow client tools to specify a hostname of form HOST#xx (tridge)
+- added wbinfo --set-auth-user (tpot)
+- added lsaquerysecobj to rpcclient (tpot)
+
+Changes in alpha4
+
+- fixed nexus/win9x user list (jfm)
+- fixed large user/group lists in winbindd (tridge)
+- fixed gssapi headers in redhat (jmcd)
+- fixed rap error code handling (jra)
+- more usermanager rpc calls (jfm)
+- re-added RAP calls at top level to net command (tridge)
+
+Changes in alpha3
+
+- fixed a silly tdb bug in alpha2 that affected internal databases
+
+Changes in alpha2
+
+- we no longer use cyrus-sasl for LDAP SASL/gssapi. This makes our ADS
+ code much more robust.
+- winbindd cache code rewritten to be much more efficient. It also
+ copes much better with server outages.
+- jfm implemented full group mapping and smb.conf option 'domain admin
+ group' is now gone. Consult the GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt to know how
+ to gain back administrator rights.
+- docs update started
+- numerous small bugfixes
+
+Changes in alpha1
+
+ - winbindd now uses LDAP and works correctly with an ADS server in
+ native mode
+ - XFS quotas code on Linux
+ - group mapping code from JFM
+ - "net rpc join" command replaces smbpasswd -j
+ - fixed winbind initgroups
+
+--------------
+
+This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0 alpha0. This is NOT a stable
+release. Use at your own risk.
+
+The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
+new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We are
+planning on ceasing development on the 2.2.x release of Samba very
+shortly and after that we will be concentrating on Samba 3.0. To
+reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0 release we need as many
+poeple as possible to start testing these alpha releases, and
+hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs fixing.
+
+Note that Samba 3.0 is not anywhere near feature complete yet. There
+is a lot more coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have
+done already more widely tested we will have a hard time doing a
+stable release in a reasonable time frame.
+
+This release is also missing major pieces of documentation, and there
+are many parts of the docs that have not been updated to reflect the
+new options and features in 3.0.
+
+Major new features:
+-------------------
+
+- Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
+ as a member server and authenticate users using
+ LDAP/kerberos. Please read ADS-HOWTO.txt in the release for a very
+ rough guide on how to set this up.
+
+- Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate unicode on the wire and
+ interally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
+ and unicode character sets. You may need the "dos charset", "unix
+ charset" and "display charset" options. The unicode support is not
+ yet documented.
-Improved browsing support.
---------------------------
+- New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
+ been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
+ but the new auth system is also very configurable. Not documented
+ yet.
-Samba now should support propagation of browse lists
-across subnets correctly. Look in the file docs/BROWSING.txt
-as it has been largely re-written to explain how to do this.
+- new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
+ completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
+ persistantly. This needs lots of testing.
-Thanks to Silicon Graphics for allowing us to test the new
-code on their corporate network.
+- new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
+ somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
+ to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
+ subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
+ implemented.
-Improved share mode handling
-----------------------------
+- Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
+ improves error handling a lot.
-The handling of share modes has been completely rewritten.
-Samba can now run agressive PC Benchmarks (Ziff-Davis
-NetBench) correctly with many hundreds of concurrent PC's.
-The confidence level on share mode handling in Samba
-is now much higher than it was previously. PC database
-packages should be much safer when run against a
-Samba share. Thanks to Silicon Graphics for testing
-this code for us.
+- better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000
+ clients has improved greatly.
-If at all possible compile Samba to use the new share
-mode handling with shared memory (set the flags
-FAST_SHARE_MODES in the Makefile). This will be *much* faster
-than old file-based share modes. FAST_SHARE_MODES have
-been turned on by default on the following platforms in
-the Makefile :
+Plus lots of other changes!
- Linux
- Solaris
- BSDI
- IRIX 5.x.x
- FreeBSD
+Note that many new features are not documented. Don't let this stop
+you from using Samba 3.0. It is particularly important that the basic
+file/print serving abilities of Samba 3.0 are widely tested to ensure
+that we have not broken any of the basic functionality. As we do more
+alpha releases we will start to document the new features.
-Updated smb.conf documentation
-------------------------------
-All options are now documented we believe.
-
-Many small bugfixes and improvements
-------------------------------------
-From around the 'net around the world. Many
-thanks to everyone who contributed.
-
-Remember - this is new code so there may be
-bugs or problems.
-
-As always, all bugs are our responsibility -
-please report them to :
-
-samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
-
-
-Regards,
-
- The Samba Team.
+Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
+---------------------------------------
+
+Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
+joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net
+
+If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
+feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
+the problem then you will probably be ignored.
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