2 WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alphaX
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7 - we no longer use cyrus-sasl for LDAP SASL/gssapi. This makes our ADS
9 - winbindd cache code rewritten to be much more efficient. It also
10 copes much better with server outages.
11 - jfm implemented full group mapping and smb.conf option 'domain admin
12 group' is now gone. Consult the GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt to know how
13 to gain back administrator rights.
15 - numerous small bugfixes
19 - winbindd now uses LDAP and works correctly with an ADS server in
21 - XFS quotas code on Linux
22 - group mapping code from JFM
23 - "net rpc join" command replaces smbpasswd -j
24 - fixed winbind initgroups
28 This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0 alpha0. This is NOT a stable
29 release. Use at your own risk.
31 The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
32 new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We are
33 planning on ceasing development on the 2.2.x release of Samba very
34 shortly and after that we will be concentrating on Samba 3.0. To
35 reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0 release we need as many
36 poeple as possible to start testing these alpha releases, and
37 hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs fixing.
39 Note that Samba 3.0 is not anywhere near feature complete yet. There
40 is a lot more coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have
41 done already more widely tested we will have a hard time doing a
42 stable release in a reasonable time frame.
44 This release is also missing major pieces of documentation, and there
45 are many parts of the docs that have not been updated to reflect the
46 new options and features in 3.0.
51 - Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
52 as a member server and authenticate users using
53 LDAP/kerberos. Please read ADS-HOWTO.txt in the release for a very
54 rough guide on how to set this up.
56 - Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate unicode on the wire and
57 interally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
58 and unicode character sets. You may need the "dos charset", "unix
59 charset" and "display charset" options. The unicode support is not
62 - New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
63 been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
64 but the new auth system is also very configurable. Not documented
67 - new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
68 completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
69 persistantly. This needs lots of testing.
71 - new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
72 somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
73 to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
74 subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
77 - Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
78 improves error handling a lot.
80 - better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000
81 clients has improved greatly.
83 Plus lots of other changes!
85 Note that many new features are not documented. Don't let this stop
86 you from using Samba 3.0. It is particularly important that the basic
87 file/print serving abilities of Samba 3.0 are widely tested to ensure
88 that we have not broken any of the basic functionality. As we do more
89 alpha releases we will start to document the new features.
92 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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95 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
96 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net
98 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
99 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
100 the problem then you will probably be ignored.