Beside this the release includes:
+* a new build system based on WAF
+Andrew Tridgell (tridge) invested much time to bring this up. He achieved a
+marvellous work which brings us faster building, easier management and smaller
+binaries.
+
* 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.
+This two components allow 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.
"net acl" for further informations.
* dynamic DNS updates
-A new DNS upgrade mechanism has been introduced which works with newer bind9
-releases.
+Up-to-date DNS entries are essential for Active Directory deployments. As for
+the moment Samba4 isn't yet capable to interoperate with Microsofts AD DNS
+server (regarding RPCs, ADs zone entries...) a kind of update script has been
+developed. It also permits the update of the "grant" and "resource" lists.
* registry improvements
The registry code was reworked, improved and retested. This was achieved by the
Also some real bugs were fixed.
* new Kerberos HEIMDAL release
-Abartlet imported a new release with various bugfixes
+Andrew Bartlett (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
+Stefan Metzmacher (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
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
==============
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.