1 WHATS NEW IN 1.9.17p1 - September 5 1997
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4 New stable patch release: Samba - version 1.9.17p1.
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7 This is a patch release which superceedes the
8 last stable release of Samba, release 1.9.17.
9 This release fixes the few bugs that users reported
10 in the previous stable release (1.9.17).
14 Fix for DOS and Windows 95 clients having trouble
15 delting files on a Samba share in a DOS command line
18 Fixes to set the 'flag' bits correctly when talking to a
19 non-Samba WINS server.
21 Fix for NT clients being dropped when using security=server.
23 Fixes to the printer queue reporting code.
25 Fix for the name map mangle bug (mangling .html -> .htm was
28 If you are not affected by any of these problems then there
29 is no need to upgrade.
31 The release notes from the previous stable release follow.
35 -------------Previous release notes-------------------------
37 New stable release of Samba - 1.9.17
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40 This is the new stable release of Samba, superceeding
41 the last stable release 1.9.16p11. All users are
42 encouraged to upgrade to this new release as there have
43 been many improvements to the code since that time.
45 Changes since 1.9.16p11.
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48 Improved browsing support.
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51 Samba now should support propagation of browse lists
52 across subnets correctly. Look in the file docs/BROWSING.txt
53 as it has been largely re-written to explain how to do this.
55 *IMPORTANT* All Samba servers acting as local/domain master
56 browsers must be running 1.9.17 (or later).
58 Thanks to Silicon Graphics for allowing us to test the new
59 code on their corporate network.
62 Improved share mode handling
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65 The handling of share modes has been completely rewritten.
66 Samba can now run agressive PC Benchmarks (Ziff-Davis
67 NetBench) correctly with many hundreds of concurrent PC's.
68 The confidence level on share mode handling in Samba
69 is now much higher than it was previously. PC database
70 packages should be safe when run against a Samba share.
71 Thanks to Silicon Graphics for testing this code for us.
73 If at all possible compile Samba to use the new share
74 mode handling with shared memory (set the flags
75 FAST_SHARE_MODES in the Makefile). This will be *much* faster
76 than old file-based share modes. FAST_SHARE_MODES have
77 been turned on by default on the following platforms in
86 Roving profile support.
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89 Roving profiles are believed to work correctly
90 with Windows NT 4.x and Windows 95. Domain logons
91 are fully implemented *for Windows 95 machines only*.
96 All options are now documented in the smb.conf man page
97 we believe. Much work has been done by Samba Team members
98 to improve the quality and quantity of the Samba documentation.
100 Many bugfixes and improvements
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102 From around the 'net around the world. Many
103 thanks to everyone who contributed.
108 Thanks to Cisco for the new netbios alias code support.
109 Thanks to Silicon Graphics for the help with the cross
110 subnet browsing and NetBench code.
111 Thanks to Whistle for funding one of the Samba Team
117 The Samba Team believes that this is a stable
118 production release, but all software has bugs.
119 If you have problems, or think you have found a
120 bug please email a report to :
122 samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
124 Stating the version number of Samba that you
125 are running, and *full details* of the steps
126 we need to reproduce the problem.
128 As always, all bugs are our responsibility.