WHATS NEW IN 1.9.17 - August 25th 1997 ====================================== New stable release of Samba. ---------------------------- This is the new stable release of Samba, superceding the last stable release 1.9.16p11. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this new release as there have been many improvements to the code since that time. See the Frequently Asked Questions (under docs/faq) for an explanation of how the version numbering scheme works, distinguishing between stable and development releases. Changes since 1.9.16p11. ------------------------ Improved browsing support. -------------------------- 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. *IMPORTANT* All Samba servers acting as local/domain master browsers must be running 1.9.17 (or later). Thanks to Silicon Graphics for allowing us to test the new code on their corporate network. Improved share mode handling ---------------------------- 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 safe when run against a Samba share. Thanks to Silicon Graphics for testing this code for us. 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 : Linux Solaris BSDI IRIX 5.x.x FreeBSD Roving profile support. ----------------------- Roving profiles are believed to work correctly with Windows NT 4.x and Windows 95. Domain logons are fully implemented *for Windows 95 machines only*. Updated documentation --------------------- All options are now documented in the smb.conf man page we believe. Much work has been done by Samba Team members to improve the quality and quantity of the Samba documentation. A draft new structure for documentation is being worked on: see docs/faq/Samba-meta-FAQ for details. This will soon be a master reference to all Samba documentation. Many bugfixes and improvements ------------------------------ From around the 'net around the world. Many thanks to everyone who contributed. Commercial thanks. ------------------ Thanks to Cisco for the new netbios alias code support. Thanks to Silicon Graphics for the help with the cross subnet browsing and NetBench code. Thanks to Whistle for funding one of the Samba Team members. Reporting bugs -------------- The Samba Team believes that this is a stable production release, but all software has bugs. If you have problems, or think you have found a bug please email a report to : samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au Stating 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, The Samba Team.