- WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18alpha12 Nov 27th 1997
+ WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18alpha13 Dec 15th 1997
========================================
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.
-This release contains some experimental features and
-changes and is being made available so people can
-test and provide feedback and patches for ongoing
-Samba development.
+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 :
-Please note that only the Domain controller code
-is truly experimental. The other changes have
-been extensively tested and are of the same
-quality as normal Samba alpha releases. The
-Domain controller code is disabled in the Makefile
-by default and is being made available to Samba
-programmers in the interests of advancing a
-public implementation of this important protocol.
+samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
+
+to get instructions on how to gain access to
+the latest Domain controller code.
This release contains three major changes to the
1.9.17 series and much re-written code.
-
The main changes are :
1). Oplock support now operational.
Windows NT has this feature and prior to this
release this was one of the reasons Windows NT
-could be faster in some situations.
+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.
+-----------------------------------
-2). Experimental Primary Domain controller code.
-------------------------------------------------
-
-Samba now contains a *VERY* experimental client and
-server implementation of part of the Windows NT
-4.x Domain Controller specification, as
-published by Paul Ashton (now a Samba Team
-member).
-
-This code is not enabled in the Makefile by default,
-and to work on this code you must read the file :
-
- docs/NTDOMAIN.txt
-
-Please note that as this code is not complete,
-it is being made available as part of this release
-to allow interested parties to contribute and help
-the Samba Team in documenting and implementing
-this important feature.
-
-Please do not expect to be able to replace your
-NT Domain Controllers with Samba until this code
-is finished, tested and an announcement is made.
-
-At present the Domain Controller code is for
-programmers and people interested in Microsoft
-protocols only.
-
+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.
+
+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.
3). New Internationalization support.
-------------------------------------
Much of the internals of Samba has been re-structured
to support the oplock and Domain controller changes.
-The WINS client and WINS server capabilities in nmbd
-are also being restructured, to make it easier to
-understand and maintain.
-
Samba supports the NT 3.51 and 4.0 Domain Authentication
Protocol to a degree sufficient to download Profiles to an
NT 3.51 or 4.0 Workstation ("Welcome to the SAMBA Domain").
-There is also code in smbclient to generate the same
-requests as an NT Workstation would when doing an NT
-Domain Logon. This has only been tested against a Samba
-"Experimental" PDC so far.
+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.
Some of the new parameters for NT Domain Logons and
Profile support are now also used by the Win95 Domain
Logons and Profile support.
-The Automount code has been slightly reshuffled, such
+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.
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 GLPL License issued specifically for code
+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.
-New workstation accounts are added to the smbpasswd file,
-when a user first logs in from that workstation. The
-default machine password is used. NTDOMAIN.txt has been
-updated to reflect this (you used to have to add workstation
-accounts manually).
-
-The "domain hosts allow/deny" parameters have been added
-to control access to the domain from specific workstations.
-
-
New parameters in smb.conf.
---------------------------
New Global parameters.
----------------------
-Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
+Documented in the smb.con man pages :
"bind interfaces only"
- "username level"
-
- "domain hosts allow"
- "domain hosts deny"
- "domain sid"
- "domain groups"
+ "lm announce"
+ "lm interval"
"logon drive"
"logon home"
+ "min wins ttl"
+ "max wins ttl"
-Not yet documented in the smb.conf man page, please
-read docs/NTDOMAIN.txt or examine the source code for
-information on the next parameters :
-
- "domain other sids"
- "domain admin users"
- "domain guest users"
-
+ "username level"
New Share level parameters.
---------------------------
git.samba.org / jra / samba / .git / blobdiff