1 WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alphaX
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6 - added "net ads info" to probe basic into on your ads server without
8 - improved some error handling
12 - added "net time zone" command (tridge)
13 - pam_smbpass updates (a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net)
15 - net rpc join handles existing machine acct (tridge)
19 - added "net time" command (tridge)
20 - allow client tools to specify a hostname of form HOST#xx (tridge)
21 - added wbinfo --set-auth-user (tpot)
22 - added lsaquerysecobj to rpcclient (tpot)
26 - fixed nexus/win9x user list (jfm)
27 - fixed large user/group lists in winbindd (tridge)
28 - fixed gssapi headers in redhat (jmcd)
29 - fixed rap error code handling (jra)
30 - more usermanager rpc calls (jfm)
31 - re-added RAP calls at top level to net command (tridge)
35 - fixed a silly tdb bug in alpha2 that affected internal databases
39 - we no longer use cyrus-sasl for LDAP SASL/gssapi. This makes our ADS
40 code much more robust.
41 - winbindd cache code rewritten to be much more efficient. It also
42 copes much better with server outages.
43 - jfm implemented full group mapping and smb.conf option 'domain admin
44 group' is now gone. Consult the GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt to know how
45 to gain back administrator rights.
47 - numerous small bugfixes
51 - winbindd now uses LDAP and works correctly with an ADS server in
53 - XFS quotas code on Linux
54 - group mapping code from JFM
55 - "net rpc join" command replaces smbpasswd -j
56 - fixed winbind initgroups
60 This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0 alpha0. This is NOT a stable
61 release. Use at your own risk.
63 The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
64 new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We are
65 planning on ceasing development on the 2.2.x release of Samba very
66 shortly and after that we will be concentrating on Samba 3.0. To
67 reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0 release we need as many
68 poeple as possible to start testing these alpha releases, and
69 hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs fixing.
71 Note that Samba 3.0 is not anywhere near feature complete yet. There
72 is a lot more coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have
73 done already more widely tested we will have a hard time doing a
74 stable release in a reasonable time frame.
76 This release is also missing major pieces of documentation, and there
77 are many parts of the docs that have not been updated to reflect the
78 new options and features in 3.0.
83 - Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
84 as a member server and authenticate users using
85 LDAP/kerberos. Please read ADS-HOWTO.txt in the release for a very
86 rough guide on how to set this up.
88 - Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate unicode on the wire and
89 interally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
90 and unicode character sets. You may need the "dos charset", "unix
91 charset" and "display charset" options. The unicode support is not
94 - New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
95 been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
96 but the new auth system is also very configurable. Not documented
99 - new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
100 completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
101 persistantly. This needs lots of testing.
103 - new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
104 somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
105 to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
106 subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
109 - Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
110 improves error handling a lot.
112 - better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000
113 clients has improved greatly.
115 Plus lots of other changes!
117 Note that many new features are not documented. Don't let this stop
118 you from using Samba 3.0. It is particularly important that the basic
119 file/print serving abilities of Samba 3.0 are widely tested to ensure
120 that we have not broken any of the basic functionality. As we do more
121 alpha releases we will start to document the new features.
124 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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127 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
128 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net
130 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
131 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
132 the problem then you will probably be ignored.