1 WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alphaX
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6 - winbindd now uses LDAP and works correctly with an ADS server in
8 - XFS quotas code on Linux
9 - group mapping code from JFM
10 - "net rpc join" command replaces smbpasswd -j
11 - fixed winbind initgroups
15 This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0 alpha0. This is NOT a stable
16 release. Use at your own risk.
18 The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
19 new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We are
20 planning on ceasing development on the 2.2.x release of Samba very
21 shortly and after that we will be concentrating on Samba 3.0. To
22 reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0 release we need as many
23 poeple as possible to start testing these alpha releases, and
24 hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs fixing.
26 Note that Samba 3.0 is not anywhere near feature complete yet. There
27 is a lot more coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have
28 done already more widely tested we will have a hard time doing a
29 stable release in a reasonable time frame.
31 This release is also missing major pieces of documentation, and there
32 are many parts of the docs that have not been updated to reflect the
33 new options and features in 3.0.
38 - Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
39 as a member server and authenticate users using
40 LDAP/kerberos. Please read ADS-HOWTO.txt in the release for a very
41 rough guide on how to set this up.
43 - Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate unicode on the wire and
44 interally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
45 and unicode character sets. You may need the "dos charset", "unix
46 charset" and "display charset" options. The unicode support is not
49 - New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
50 been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
51 but the new auth system is also very configurable. Not documented
54 - new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
55 completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
56 persistantly. This needs lots of testing.
58 - new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
59 somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
60 to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
61 subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
64 - Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
65 improves error handling a lot.
67 - better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000
68 clients has improved greatly.
70 Plus lots of other changes!
72 Note that many new features are not documented. Don't let this stop
73 you from using Samba 3.0. It is particularly important that the basic
74 file/print serving abilities of Samba 3.0 are widely tested to ensure
75 that we have not broken any of the basic functionality. As we do more
76 alpha releases we will start to document the new features.
79 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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82 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
83 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net
85 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
86 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
87 the problem then you will probably be ignored.