- WHATS NEW IN 1.9.17alpha1 - May 21st 1997.
- ==========================================
+ WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18alpha13 Dec 15th 1997
+ ========================================
-Improved browsing support.
---------------------------
+This is NOT a production release of Samba code.
+For production servers please run Samba 1.9.17p4
+or later releases in the 1.9.17 series.
-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.
+In this release (1.9.18alpha13) the Domain controller
+code should not be turned on. The Domain controller
+code stream is now being developed in a separate code
+development branch. To participate in this important
+work, send an email to :
-Thanks to Silicon Graphics for allowing us to test the new
-code on their corporate network.
+samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
-Improved share mode handling
-----------------------------
+to get instructions on how to gain access to
+the latest Domain controller code.
-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.
+This release contains three major changes to the
+1.9.17 series and much re-written code.
-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 :
+The main changes are :
- Linux
- Solaris
- BSDI
- IRIX 5.x.x
- FreeBSD
+1). Oplock support now operational.
+-----------------------------------
-Updated smb.conf documentation
-------------------------------
+Samba now supports 'exclusive' and 'batch' oplocks.
+These are an advanced networked file system feature
+that allows clients to obtain a exclusive use of a
+file. This allows a client to cache any changes it
+makes locally, and greatly improves performance.
+
+Windows NT has this feature and prior to this
+release this was one of the reasons Windows NT
+could be faster in some situations. Samba has
+now been benchmarked as out performing Windows
+NT on equivalently priced hardware.
+
+The oplock code in Samba has been extensively
+tested and is believed to be completely stable.
+
+Please report any problems to the samba-bugs alias.
+
+2). NetBIOS name daemon re-written.
+-----------------------------------
+
+The old nmbd that has caused some users problems
+has now been completely re-written and now is
+much easier to maintain and add changes to.
+
+Changes include support for multi-homed hosts
+in the same way as an NT Server with multiple
+IP interfaces behaves (registers with the WINS
+server as a multi-homed name type), and also
+support for multi-homed name registration in
+the Samba WINS server. Another added feature
+is robustness in the face of WINS server failure,
+nmbd will now keep trying to contact the WINS
+server until it is successful, in the same
+way as an NT Server.
-All options are now documented we believe.
+Also in this release is an implementation
+of the Lanman announce protocol used by
+OS/2 clients. Thanks to Jacco de Leeuw for
+this code.
-Many small bugfixes and improvements
-------------------------------------
-From around the 'net around the world. Many
-thanks to everyone who contributed.
+3). New Internationalization support.
+-------------------------------------
-Remember - this is new code so there may be
-bugs or problems.
+With this release Samba no longer needs to be
+separately compiled for Japanese (Kanji) support,
+the same binary will serve both Kanji and non-Kanji
+clients.
-As always, all bugs are our responsibility -
-please report them to :
+A new method of dynamically loading client code pages
+has been added to allow the case insensitivity to
+be done dependent on the code page of the client.
-samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
+Note that Samba still will only handle one client
+code page at a time. This will be fixed when
+Samba is fully UNICODE enabled.
+
+Please see the new man page for make_smbcodepage
+for details on adding additional client code page
+support.
+
+
+Changed code.
+-------------
+
+Samba no longer needs the libdes library to support
+encrypted passwords. Samba now contains a restricted
+version of DES that can only be used for authentication
+purposes (to comply with the USA export encryption
+regulations and to allow USA Mirror sites to carry
+Samba source code). The 'encrypt passwords' parameter
+may now be used without recompiling.
+
+Much of the internals of Samba has been re-structured
+to support the oplock and Domain controller changes.
+
+An implementation of the Windows 95 automatic printer
+driver installation has been added to smbd. To use this
+new feature please read the document:
+
+docs/PRINTER_DRIVER.txt
+
+Thanks to Jean-Francois Micouleau for this new code.
+
+Printer support on System V systems (notably Solaris)
+has been improved with the addition of code generously
+donated by Norm Jacobs of Sun Microsystems. Sun have
+also made a Solaris SPARC workstation available to the
+Samba Team to aid in their porting efforts.
+
+Samba now contains an implementation of share modes
+using System V shared memory as well as the mmap()
+based code. This was done to allow the 'FAST_SHARE_MODES'
+to be used on more systems (especially HPUX 9.x) that
+have System V shared memory, but not the mmap() call.
+
+The System V shared memory code is used by default on
+many systems as it has benchmarked as faster on many
+systems.
+
+The Automount code has been slightly re-shuffled, such
+that the home directory (and profile location) can be
+specified by \\%N\homes and \\%N\homes\profiles
+respectively, which are the defaults for these values.
+If -DAUTOMOUNT is enabled, then %N is the server
+component of the user's NIS auto.home entry. Obviously,
+you will need to be running Samba on the user's home
+server as well as the one they just logged in on.
+
+The RPC Domain code has been moved into a separate directory
+rpc_pipe/, and a LGPL License issued specifically for code
+in this directory. This is so that people can use this
+code in other projects.
+
+Missing feature.
+----------------
+
+One feature that we wanted to get into this release
+that was not possible due to the re-write of the nmbd
+code was the scalability features in the Samba WINS server.
+This feature is now tentatively scheduled for the next
+release (1.9.19). Apologies to anyone who was hoping
+for this feature to be included. The nmbd re-write
+will make it much easier to add such things in future.
+
+New parameters in smb.conf.
+---------------------------
+
+New Global parameters.
+----------------------
+
+Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
+
+ "bind interfaces only"
+
+ "lm announce"
+ "lm interval"
+
+ "logon drive"
+ "logon home"
+
+ "min wins ttl"
+ "max wins ttl"
+
+ "username level"
+
+New Share level parameters.
+---------------------------
+
+Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
+
+ "delete veto files"
+ "oplocks"
+
+Nascent web interface for configuration.
+----------------------------------------
+
+source/wsmbconf.c is a cgi-bin program for editing smb.conf. It can
+also be run standalone. This is in a very early stage of development.
+
+Reporting bugs.
+---------------
+
+If you have problems, or think you have found a
+bug please email a report to :
+
+ samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
+
+Please state the version number of Samba that
+you are running, and *full details* of the steps
+we need to reproduce the problem.
+As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
Regards,
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