1 WHATS NEW IN Samba 2.2.0alpha0
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4 This is the first alpha release of the new 2.2.0 codebase
5 for Samba. This version must not be run in production.
7 This code will almost certainly have some bugs and is
8 intended to help the Samba Team prepare an official 2.2.0
11 The documentation in this alpha snapshot is not up to date,
12 there are many new parameters since 2.0.7. This will be
13 corrected in a later alpha release.
15 The upcoming 2.2.0 Samba release will include the following
18 Support for native Windows NT4/2000 printing RPCs.
19 This includes support for automatic printer driver
22 Rewritten internal locking semantics for more robustness.
23 This alpha supports full 64 bit locking semantics on all
24 (even 32 bit) platforms. SMB locks are mapped onto POSIX
25 locks (32 bit or 64 bit) as the underlying system allows.
27 Conversion of various internal flat data structures to use
28 database records for increased performance and
31 Support for acting as a MS-DFS server
33 Compile time option for enabling a VFS layer
35 Support for server supported Access Control Lists (ACLs).
36 This support will require a specific pluggable backend to
37 be written for each filesystem ACL implementation to be
38 supported. The stable 2.2.0 release should contain
39 support for the following filesystems:
43 Linux Kernel 2.2 with German ACL patch
45 Currently in this alpha snapshot (alpha0) this feature
46 is not enabled - the VFS layer has been modified to allow
47 it, but the code is still under development and should
48 be in a later alpha snapshot.
50 Other platforms will be supported as resources are
51 available to test and implement the encessary modules. If
52 you are interested in writing the support for a particular
53 ACL filesystem, please join the samba-technical mailing
54 list and coordinate your efforts.
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58 If you think you have found a bug please email a report to :
62 As always, all bugs are our responsibility.