libcli:smb: add defines for SMB2.2 global capabilities

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-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
+This is the release 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.
 
 >>>> 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 
 the Samba Team, who support the original author, Andrew Tridgell.
 
 >>>> 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/install.html
+      docs/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/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). 
 
 
 
 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?
-============
+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
 
 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 NT, OS/2, and Linux and add on
-packages that achieve the same thing are available for DOS, Windows,
-VMS, Unix of all kinds, MVS, and more. Apple Macs and some Web Browsers
-can speak this protocol as well.  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 Filesystem (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative
+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?
 ==============================
 
 is called. For details watch http://samba.org/cifs.
 
 
 WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB?
 ==============================
 

-1. Many people want to integrate their Microsoft or IBM style desktop
-   machines with their Unix or VMS (etc) servers.
+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
 
 2. Others want to integrate their Microsoft (etc) servers with Unix

-   or VMS (etc) servers. This is a different problem to integrating
-   desktop clients.
+   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.
 
 3. Others want to replace protocols like NFS, DecNet and Novell NCP,
    especially when used with PCs.


@@ -50,18 +51,26 @@ WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB?
 WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
 ==================
 
 WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
 ==================
 

-Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does. For
-many networks this can be simply summarised by "Samba provides a complete
-replacement for Windows NT, Warp, NFS or Netware servers."
+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 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 Domain Controller (NT4 and AD) 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
 - 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
+  printers) from UNIX, Netware, and other operating systems

 
 - a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs
 
 
 - a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs
 


@@ -73,16 +82,14 @@ http://samba.org/samba, and browse the user survey.
 
 Related packages include:
 
 
 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, an 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.

 
 

-- tcpdump-smb, a extension to tcpdump to allow you to investigate SMB
-networking problems over netbeui and tcp/ip.
+- smbfs, the previous 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.

 
 

-- smblib, a library of smb functions which are designed to make it
-easy to smb-ise any particular application. See
-ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/smblib.

 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS
 
 
 CONTRIBUTIONS


@@ -90,27 +97,21 @@ CONTRIBUTIONS
 
 If you want to contribute to the development of the software then
 please join the mailing list. The Samba team accepts patches
 
 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 docs/BUGS.txt for more details)
-and are always glad to receive feedback or suggestions to the address
-samba@lists.samba.org.
-
-You can also get the Samba sourcecode straight from the CVS tree - see
-http://samba.org/cvs.html.
+(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 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 :-)
+You can also get the Samba sourcecode straight from the git repository - see
+http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Using_Git_for_Samba_Development.

 
 

-If you like a particular feature then look through the CVS change-log
-(on the web at http://samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba) and see
+If you like a particular feature then look through the git change-log
+(on the web at http://gitweb.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=summary) and see

 who added it, then send them an email.
 
 Remember that free software of this kind lives or dies by the response
 who added it, then send them an email.
 
 Remember that free software of this kind lives or dies by the response

-we get. If noone 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 :-)
-
+we get. If no one tells us they like it then we'll probably move onto
+something else.

 
 MORE INFO
 =========
 
 MORE INFO
 =========


@@ -119,17 +120,16 @@ DOCUMENTATION
 -------------
 
 There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package,
 -------------
 
 There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package,

-including man pages, and lots of .txt files with hints and useful
+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
 info. This is also available from the web page. There is a growing

-collection of information under docs/faq; by the next release expect
-this to be the default starting point.
+collection of information under docs/.

 
 A list of Samba documentation in languages other than English is
 available on the web page.
 
 
 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/
+If you would like to help with the documentation, please coodinate 
+on the samba@samba.org mailing list.  See the next section for details 
+on subscribing to samba mailing lists.

 
 
 MAILING LIST
 
 
 MAILING LIST


@@ -194,25 +194,14 @@ A few tips when submitting to this or any mailing list.
 8. RTFM. Google. groups.google.com.
 
 
 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:
 
 WEB SITE
 --------
 
 A Samba WWW site has been setup with lots of useful info. Connect to:
 

-http://samba.org/samba/
+http://samba.org/

 
 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
 
 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? :-)
+this package.