1 Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
2 developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
3 this branch is full support for being a Active Directory domain controller.
5 Samba 4 is currently not yet in a state where it is usable in production
6 environments. The STATUS file aims to document what should and should not
9 Those familiar with Samba 3 can find a list of user-visible changes
10 since that release series in the NEWS file. A short guide to setting up
11 Samba 4 can be found in the howto.txt file in this directory.
13 Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.samba.org/. Please
14 look at the STATUS file before filing a bug to see if a particular
15 is supposed to work yet.
17 Development and general discussion about Samba 4 happens mainly on
18 the #samba-technical IRC channel (on irc.freenode.net) and
19 the samba-technical mailing list (see http://lists.samba.org/ for