1 WHATS NEW IN 1.9.17 - August 25th 1997
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4 New stable release of Samba.
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7 This is the new stable release of Samba, superceding
8 the last stable release 1.9.16p11. All users are
9 encouraged to upgrade to this new release as there have
10 been many improvements to the code since that time.
11 See the Frequently Asked Questions (under docs/faq) for
12 an explanation of how the version numbering scheme works,
13 distinguishing between stable and development releases.
15 Changes since 1.9.16p11.
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18 Improved browsing support.
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21 Samba now should support propagation of browse lists
22 across subnets correctly. Look in the file docs/BROWSING.txt
23 as it has been largely re-written to explain how to do this.
25 *IMPORTANT* All Samba servers acting as local/domain master
26 browsers must be running 1.9.17 (or later).
28 Thanks to Silicon Graphics for allowing us to test the new
29 code on their corporate network.
32 Improved share mode handling
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35 The handling of share modes has been completely rewritten.
36 Samba can now run agressive PC Benchmarks (Ziff-Davis
37 NetBench) correctly with many hundreds of concurrent PC's.
38 The confidence level on share mode handling in Samba
39 is now much higher than it was previously. PC database
40 packages should be safe when run against a Samba share.
41 Thanks to Silicon Graphics for testing this code for us.
43 If at all possible compile Samba to use the new share
44 mode handling with shared memory (set the flags
45 FAST_SHARE_MODES in the Makefile). This will be *much* faster
46 than old file-based share modes. FAST_SHARE_MODES have
47 been turned on by default on the following platforms in
56 Roving profile support.
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59 Roving profiles are believed to work correctly
60 with Windows NT 4.x and Windows 95. Domain logons
61 are fully implemented *for Windows 95 machines only*.
66 All options are now documented in the smb.conf man page
67 we believe. Much work has been done by Samba Team members
68 to improve the quality and quantity of the Samba documentation.
70 A draft new structure for documentation is being worked on: see
71 docs/faq/Samba-meta-FAQ for details. This will soon be a master
72 reference to all Samba documentation.
74 Many bugfixes and improvements
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76 From around the 'net around the world. Many
77 thanks to everyone who contributed.
82 Thanks to Cisco for the new netbios alias code support.
83 Thanks to Silicon Graphics for the help with the cross
84 subnet browsing and NetBench code.
85 Thanks to Whistle for funding one of the Samba Team
91 The Samba Team believes that this is a stable
92 production release, but all software has bugs.
93 If you have problems, or think you have found a
94 bug please email a report to :
96 samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
98 Stating the version number of Samba that you
99 are running, and *full details* of the steps
100 we need to reproduce the problem.
102 As always, all bugs are our responsibility.